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That’s not completely true; you would be anonymous towards everyone but the identity providers and any government or organization powerful enough to wield influence over the identity providers. Which completely defeats the most important reason people choose to remain anonymous.

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Ah, yeah I implicitly meant that the identity providers basically have to be government owned so yes.

I don't really see a way around this if the aim is to prove human-ness though.

Right, but the identity providers being government owned exacerbates the problem I'm talking about.

I don't personally care if Joe the random person has access to an anonymous account*, but I do care if Joe the Russian dissident—whose entire ability to safely post points of view which disagree with his government relies upon it—has access to an anonymous account.

* I am not saying there aren't other valid reasons, including entertainment reasons, to have an anonymous account. But those aren't part of my main point

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