There will always be anonymous alternatives. That’s the nature of the Internet. With a platform like that, I would probably take views expressed there as a likely genuine statement, whereas I’ll treat statements on anonymous platforms as likely bot / malicious actor etc. activity. I think we are a bit naive to the fact how much outside influence and interference there is on public platforms.

Contrarian opinion here but I’m all for I’d verification in a social network and things. All other platforms like X, Facebook,… have gone downhill with bots and paid foreign actors. The same will happen to mastodon, lemmy, bluesky,… as well when they get bigger.

A hard to swallow pill but either we go down this way or we’ll continue to open Putin, Trump,… the back door to our democracy. Let’s hope it succeeds.