Androgynous Sex Vampire on Nostr: People with opinions or identities that are unpopular in their society or community ...

People with opinions or identities that are unpopular in their society or community will always want to have anonymity to keep themselves safe. Racism, nazism, anti-Semitism, etc are generally unpopular in most societies, and therefore people who support those things are among the people who want to have anonymity. But, likewise, things like being LGBT are unpopular in many communities, especially smaller ones, even in societies where it's accepted by the mainstream. I think the vast majority of LGBT people on fedi wouldn't want to have their names and addresses plastered on their profiles. It goes both ways. Anonymity is a shield that should be available to protect everyone, even the bad actors, because the protection it provides to the most vulnerable groups - the ones at severe risk of actual violence being perpetrated against them, for example - outweighs the protection it provides to those bad actors, who probably aren't even facing consequences as severe as that should their anonymity be broken.