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View submission: Is Reddit Anonymous?
You're anon to your family, coworkers etc.. you aren't forced to use real name, profile picture and have your boss and neighbours snooping in your private life. In that way it is a whole lot better than fb. Anon to gov? Probably not.
Comment by melny at 22/03/2018 at 19:33 UTC
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That’s true.
To be fair, you aren’t forced to have your real identity on other social media sites either. It’s pretty easy to have a fake Facebook or insta, assuming the name isn’t General Butt Scratch or something. People choose to link to each other and that’s the purpose built point of fb.
The nice part about something like Facebook is a person can limit who can access what information, where as the only protection of privacy on Reddit is through obscurity. Once someone figures out your username (like say your cat pic hits the front page), it’s basically game over.
I do see you point about connections to family/neighbors/employers etc. I would be surprised if someone I knew found my account here, but it’s not impossible that they could. I don’t think Reddit was really built with that in mind.
Agreed on not being anon to the govt.