I see that not everybody uses their actual names in their profiles as they’re testing out the waters in this new territory. The platform will take some relearning from Facebook to get used to.

It is notable that Friendica does support the ability to have multiple profiles on each account.

But the one thing that is funny to me is that anonymous users from Lemmy are able to communicate with Friendica users with real names. Imagine a well known expert on physics arguing with some armchair random from Lemmy hehe.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My name is Miles Edward O'Brien, and that's all any online entity will get. Anything beyond that is outside its "need to know"

(never give any online entity your real name unless you would trust them with your house/car keys)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Fuckin’ spectacular

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It’s interesting because the different formats will give different context to the posts. Overall though I think the tone of the comments will even out as the posts will be less echo chambery.

(Posting from a reclining arm chair)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Don’t put personal information online, always use an alias

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I lurk on Facebook under an alias as they won't accept that this is my common law name. I see no reason why we need our real names here. Let's not replicate Facebook - I much preferred Google+ and MySpace.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I personally don't have an issue with it. I put my real name as my display name because I want people to be able to find me. I trust it more than I would trust facebook with my personal info.