I’m ideologically transparency extremist. This means I want absolute openness for everyone. Overwhelming majority of people on lemmy and other places disagree with me, which means that statistically I’m wrong.

I have some strong arguments for my side and most argumentation from your side is just common trolling or logical fallacies, which makes me think that I’m correct.

Even with that, the software I use is probably more private than solid portion of members of this community, becuase almost everything I use is open source.

I want to give your side another chance. I hope for polite and fruitful discussion.

  • drolex@sopuli.xyz
    3·
    7 days ago

    I appreciate and respect your honesty regarding your real name, but given the world we live in, I would still recommend you hide it here. I still stand corrected.

    I really don’t see how authoritarian regimes would be affected negatively (for them) by transparency?

    Regarding Wikipedia, I think a lot of contributors would hesitate to give their real name. If it was the norm, maybe the usages would be different, but I think I wouldn’t have personally contributed if I knew that people I know could find my works there. And I haven’t even done anything weird.

    For banking, secrecy is a cornerstone of the system, even IRL. What the banks manage to do IRL would still need to be done on the Internet. Public transactions IRL is unthinkable and it would be online

    • garbage_world@lemmy.worldBanned from communityOP
      4·
      7 days ago

      There’s literally nothing anyone can do using just name.

      Authoritarian regimes would have to be transparent too.

      I see contributing to Wikipedia as a thing one should be proud of. I don’t use my real name only because nobody does.

      Why can’t transactions be public? I don’t know any hard barriers that prevent it

      • drolex@sopuli.xyz
        2·
        7 days ago

        For banking, people just don’t want other people to know what they do with their money, and how much money they have. Culturally I think it would be very hard to change. Not talking about dildos and such, but what you buy is really a window into your private life. When you start having children for instance, privacy becomes very important.

        Thanks for the answers, it’s an interesting perspective even if I strongly disagree. I wish people wouldn’t downvote without giving their opinion.