Oh goodie, a brand new account made to ask this question. Why not ask the question here with your real account?
this post was submitted on 01 May 2025
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100 to 1 their real account can be found in the mod list as someone recently bannex
What is a “real account” anyway? I’ve been here for over two years, and this is probably my eighth account. Whenever I hit around 1000 comments, I make a new one - so I’ll be ditching this one soon, too. Which of those would even count as my “real” account?
Lemmy is such a small platform that if I’d stuck with my first account, tons of people would recognize me by now. I don’t want internet fame, and I’d rather make it as hard as possible for any potential stalker to follow me around. Not tying your entire post history to a single username just seems like the smart move - and honestly, it surprises me how often a privacy-minded platform like Lemmy feels hostile toward people who do this.
For good faith questions, I've got a few that I've been meaning to post to !discuss@discuss.online, we appreciate good discussion. The community's been a little quiet but I'm going to put some work into it. I do specify "good faith" just because it doesn't need to become another "here's my 'unpopular' opinion that is actually popular and i want validated" or "here's why I hate ". If you're going to post bad-faith questions, or want to skirt the lines of what's appropriate, that will make my life harder as admin and that's considered a bannable offense 🙂
There's also !AskUSA@discuss.online for US-specific questions. We generally avoid politically-charged topics because there's better places for those, but questions that aren't just "Why does Trump suck?" might be a good fit.
Here's a sample of a few recent popular !AskUSA@discuss.online posts if they pique anyone's interest:
Is your deep question why is racism still racism
what topic do you want to discuss? This is relevant to know what community will accept discussion about it ...
Like about social injustices, greed, capitalism, communism, racism etc
seems like a lot of the discussions already happening across lemmy, tbh
In which community can I post something like that?
This one right here, for starts. Just post your question.
you weren't specific about the topic of your question, but the topics you mentioned are acceptable in most communities - feel free to post your question in this community, for example ...
/c/actual_discussion@lemmy.ca ?
I had no idea that formatting worked. I personally still prefer the ! as a prefix though. (It's shorter)
And it also doesn't work on all clients. It's shown as normal text for me.
On voyager half of the text is linked for me
Funny we’re all seeing different stuff from different clients
These kinds of topics are like plutonium on here if you even hint that you're not 100% onboard with the mainstream Lemmy narrative. A community like this is badly needed, but in my view, it would have to be pretty heavily moderated - people who show up just to throw personal attacks instead of engaging with the actual topic should be shown the door right away.