There’s been a couple of minor dust-ups on mastodon about the conduct of so-called “big accounts” there that I do not care to comment on, but it has got me thinking — do we even have “big accounts” on the threadiverse (Lemmy/piefed/mbin)? I don’t think there’s any handle I’ve seen where I’ve been like “oh yeah, that person.” Am I just bad at remembering usernames, or does the community/thread style of discussion remove all continuity for a single account?

  • Perspectivist@feddit.uk
    11·
    1 day ago

    Plenty of accounts that I see commenting here regularly. Not “big accounts” per se but rather just people I seem to be running into constantly. This is such a small platform that it’s pretty easy to get niche fame. That’s why I’m on my 10th account.

    • CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.worldOP
      62·
      1 day ago

      You’re on your tenth account because you’re worried that people will get a sense of who you are and what you stand for?

      • Perspectivist@feddit.uk
        12·
        1 day ago

        I’ve had to deal with a stalker in the past. After that, I learned not to put all my eggs into one basket. If someone recognizes me here they won’t get acces to my entire message history now.

          • Randomgal@lemmy.ca
            23·
            23 hours ago

            Lmao. ‘There is no censorship, you jus have to leave, make your own space and do whatever you want.’

            That is censorship.

            • CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.worldOP
              41·
              1 day ago

              It’s not censorship when I decide I don’t want to host your speech on my site. Censorship is when the government says you can’t host speech at all.

              • Electricd@lemmybefree.net
                1·
                12 hours ago

                Censorship is not only a government thing AT ALL. There are different uses of the word censorship.

                Literally the first lines of Wikipedia

                Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information. This may be done on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or “inconvenient”. Censorship can be conducted by governments and private institutions.

                It’s one thing not to accept an article on a newspaper which is only meant to accept a couple articles, and many of them having a clear and assumed editor line; and another to remove after publishing a comment or post on a public discussion forum, often claiming freedom of speech.

                If there’s an editor line, then publicly assume it and make it clear when it’s an online discussion forum: reveal your biases.