How did posting online change from, "Be careful what you put online!" to many sharing a lot under real names?

ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 230 points –

I know at this point a lot of it is related to money, but there was a transitional time that led to this point that I'm still confused by.

What details changed about online spaces that made many folks more comfortable sharing so much under their real names between the "Be careful!" times to where we are now?

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Hello there! Could you edit your post's body text to include your original only? Thank you :)

You mean remove the cross-post link? If so my bad, didn't think it crossed any of the rules. I was mainly doing so as a means to highlight the parallel communities (was originally going to post from db0 & cross-post to here, but posts are closed there).

Edit: also agh, .world's loading slow for me, so sorry for delayed response.

No worries haha, and yes that's what I meant. Also, the one in dbzer0 is also ours, it's a backup to this one :) with the old sidebar

Your name looks weird

What do you mean?