146
this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2023
146 points (100.0% liked)
Asklemmy
43328 readers
971 users here now
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
Search asklemmy ๐
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
- Open-ended question
- Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
- Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
- Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
- An actual topic of discussion
Looking for support?
Looking for a community?
- Lemmyverse: community search
- sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
- !lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities
~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Nobody needed a pseudonym back then.
You could just speak your mind openly and always write your real name to it, and it was THE NORMAL thing to do.
And yes of course we all had some f*ing "controversial" opinions back then. It was our youth after all :-) No holding back with what you would probably call unbearable extremes nowadays. And then nobody needed to do any canceling or banning or crushing our skulls....
What? I think anonymity was much more prevalent then. "Don't give anyone your real name on the internet, for anything ever" was a rule generally followed until Facebook came around. It wasn't even common for a non-business email address to be a variation on your real name until around 2008
I think that was later, when money started to take over.