But that’s also what we had in early 00s. A bunch of emails, a bunch of ICQ numbers, other such things, but ultimately your only persona to contact with others was your real one.

You will, it’ll be protected and the police will come for you.

All those “I won’t have a problem” imply you’ll be strong enough, they will be ready for you.

I didn’t notice there to be less hate in spaces mostly without anonymity, or less false bravery.

However, being “anonymous”, but identifiable with some work is still better than being identifiable immediately.

It’s the opposite of security, people create tools to have perfect forward secrecy, ephemeral keys, deniability - all for good reasons, now someone wants put a metaphorical gun to everyone’s heads telling we’ll be safer.

It’s really better to not say anything approving in that direction. Every word matters.