To be clear, some really great community members have these names, but they’re everywhere now. And with the right characters you can create some really annoying overlaps: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3790
Enough of them floating around now that I’ll probably do a PR for my favorite client to filter them out.
Interesting. I’ve never thought about it that way but I definitely agree. Even on Instagram I’ve always treated my friend list more like a list of subcribed users. I don’t follow people because I know them; I follow them because I like the content. However since not following people back seems to be frowned upon I’d just much rather spend my time on places where I’m anonymous. I’d never ever tell anyone my reddit/lemmy accounts name.