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 Just read at least to the 50%, and my only thought is that even when 80%+ of accounts are anonymous the general feeling is way better here than on Twitter where sometimes it seems to become a Battle Royale.

Personally here on Nostr the only thing I have found is support, nothing else, and this from other accounts that are anonymous.

I think the main thing here is that here is no incentive to say stupid things, or write for clout in the sense of generating polemic in any way as if the first people don't find you post appealing they won't like or zap you, there is also nothing like a "For you" tab, which means no biased algorithms, the closest thing is the trending filter on Primal where you find the most liked posts which tend to be pretty useful or nice personal posts like pics of food, family, or projects, and the comments are nothing more than "good vibes" or constructive criticism.

In Twitter for one of these pics or posts you get a couple of likes, some troll talking crap about anything on the picture, or basically no one gives a damn about it. 
 I think there’s a lot of support because people share a lot of political and world views here. But post about how anonymity should be discouraged on a protocol with 80% nyms, and people get pissed!
That’s okay — just reminded me a lot more of Twitter than at any time before posting it. 
 Well this is a good point tbh, there are a lot of shared values between the users of the protocol.

The thing here is that even if we wanted to discourage it wouldn't be possible at all just by the way it is build, you don't need anyone's permission to create a pair of keys assigning that a name and a picture.

Now that i think of it, how many of those not anon accounts are actually real in the sense they are giving their real names, or even they are not using someone else's identity?

Still i think these are topics worth discussing 😉 
 Don’t get me wrong, I love that the protocol is not KYC. Never should be forced as some people *need* to be anonymous. Just not most.