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₿eth | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 It’s why people are gravitating here, most are embracing the censorship resistant bliss. The majority are not hiding behind a nym, they’re using it to create a community that might not be so easily done if using their given name. 
Pen names have been around since the age of the newspaper. Just because this is a decentralized platform, I don’t think we now need to trade in anonymity for anyone to have a voice. The fact that we are now interacting with ideas that aren’t attached to a name, face, position, or social status speaks volumes. 
Long live #nostr 

#bitsof₿eth
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Chris Liss | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 If you have a good reason to use a nym (you’re a whistleblower, e.g.) great, but otherwise, I don’t see what it does except imply you don’t want to be connected to what you’re saying IRL. 

And I don’t really see how nyms create more community than real identities, or erase status. There are famous nyms and not famous ones, ones with lots of followers and few. 

And you definitely don’t *need* to do this, but I’m suggesting one should because the things people are saying (most of them at least) are perfectly fine to have connected to your identity, and we should normalize that being okay rather than being terrified the State will get us or some future employer will not hire us on account of it. It just makes that state of affairs more and more real IMO.
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₿eth | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Your good reason differs from mine. My good reason is simply because I want to. The community of nyms created by nyms is for those who want to opt out.