/r/theoryofreddit post asking why reddit seems dead

The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Reddit@lemmy.world – 1220 points –
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I was interested in buying a share just to be in for the ride, but then they asked for my real name to be associated with my handle. It's like they never understood what reddit was about at all.

Reddit has never been about privacy or anominity. Think of all the celebrity AMAs.

AMAs weren't celebrities on Reddit originally my friend, they were real people with interesting jobs or in unusual situations at first.

Some great posts back in the day, and definitely some not so great posts haha. I had to unsub after it turned into celebrities hocking their products.

the time I broke both my hands...
also the time I used a coconut

Good god that broken arm kid. He played it completely straight too if i remembered right, sloowly getting worse and worse with each answer. Legend

The vacuum cleaner guy was one of the all time greats. I miss that era.

You can post on 4chan as anon and prove your identity too

Reddit is (or at least was) psuedo-anonymous. You can easily get identities, and they're not linked to you

For a lot of people, I'd say most in the early years (at least in my experience), you didn't share usernames with your friends on the platform... Irl Redditors loved to identify themselves as a Redditor, we shared communities and memes, but only two of my closest friends ever knew my main account

I kept a second account that could potentially be tied to me (more work related stuff), because on my main account I always had the freedom to discard it if I embarrassed myself enough. That knowledge makes me far more likely to hit post instead of discard