The original article is a good solution to a small subset of the problems, as relates to this direct quote "With this no one is risking real-life relationships"
The problem is the somewhat larger set of problems containing that subset, and also containing people perfectly willing to risk one of those apparently hated "real-life relationships". Not talking about dating although that's an obvious example.
One big problem is this whole topic in general is rife with people analyzing their own situation and declaring their individual solution to be the universal solution for all. One specific example of this, is looking at my paragraph above, individuals are going to categorize different groups as requiring, or not requiring, anonymity in a mostly unpredictable distribution.
The other problem is WRT "Pictures of Stolen Pets content" that the author makes fun of, he needs to talk to actual users of the network, and examine the above paragraph. I find it as boring as the author; however I know a lot of people occasionally enjoy a calming, simple, meaningless experience. It doesn't all have to be Shakespeare to be enjoyable, and setting the bar very high is probably an excellent way to repel most of the casual users. The advertisers and attention addicts are not going to like that, so if the casuals leave, they'll leave. Which results in an empty service. How to work around this spiral failure mode is unclear to me.
The problem is the somewhat larger set of problems containing that subset, and also containing people perfectly willing to risk one of those apparently hated "real-life relationships". Not talking about dating although that's an obvious example.
One big problem is this whole topic in general is rife with people analyzing their own situation and declaring their individual solution to be the universal solution for all. One specific example of this, is looking at my paragraph above, individuals are going to categorize different groups as requiring, or not requiring, anonymity in a mostly unpredictable distribution.
The other problem is WRT "Pictures of Stolen Pets content" that the author makes fun of, he needs to talk to actual users of the network, and examine the above paragraph. I find it as boring as the author; however I know a lot of people occasionally enjoy a calming, simple, meaningless experience. It doesn't all have to be Shakespeare to be enjoyable, and setting the bar very high is probably an excellent way to repel most of the casual users. The advertisers and attention addicts are not going to like that, so if the casuals leave, they'll leave. Which results in an empty service. How to work around this spiral failure mode is unclear to me.