> but this functionality turned out way creepier than I thought the moment I tried it
Hopefully this raised awareness means that people who actually need anonymity will be more likely to know to take precautions.
Hopefully this raised awareness means that people who actually need anonymity will be more likely to know to take precautions.
I've been thinking about this a bit, and I've landed in that having a stable identifier across ALL comments & posts is a poor default. We still probably want some coherence, at minimum within a thread, eg to follow a back-and-forth. The site itself may also use stable identifier for abuse prevention. But there's no reason one should have the same username externally traceable for posts about completely different topics.
In practice, this could be done with low friction pseudonym creation, which all ties to the same account privately.