Meh. It’s a required feature at this point. Someone has stalked me on lemmy too.

At some point people started taking the internet beyond seriously. As if every random thing that’s mashed into the keyboard is tantamount to sworn affidavit than must be held up to scientific peer review.

It creates far more issues than it benefits. Hiding enables bad actors much more so than not hiding does, as it allows them to more easily disguise their history of bad faith arguing.

I find most hidden profiles on redit have been religious fundies or libertarians.