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yeah just calling out that it was an emergent thing at that time with how people interacted online

Agree with the idea, but to realnames weren't "unheard of" at the time. Friendster, LinkedIn, ... and many other existing social networks already used them. Facebook copied it from them.

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I remember Myspace 😆 

Ya I was active duty military and we were advised to NOT put our real information (I did receive a couple real threats from anti Americans)

yeah for sure but i kinda forgot how people were very hesitant to represent their real identities online before social media like myspace, facebook, IG, etc

Males also can pose as females with "real names" as well right?

I get it though...

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I don’t argue it created accountability for users, but the platform itself has none.

i agree with you. obviously, a few extreme cases exist but like you said, it’s not unique to web3

no not any more than many other online spaces but i’m not a woman so my opinion doesn’t really matter much in that regard

I do think that web3/crypto is pretty welcoming to all kids people

quite interesting… considering that anonymity is one of the “selling points” of the web3/crypto space, do you think it’s currently hostile to women?

Perhaps briefly, but by 2010 there was lots of evidence that women felt less safe being doxxed. See also: Nymwars

Perhaps briefly, but by 2010 there was lots of evidence that women felt less safe being doxxed. See also: Nymwars 
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymwars