<edit>I found the quote [0], which I had quoted in my essay "Why Twitter Should Verify More Users: Towards a More Human Web" [1]:
> Facebook’s killer feature was that it replicated the real world by forcing people to use their real names, whereas MySpace users used pseudonymous handles
[0]: https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-myspace-ceo-explains-why-1...
[1]: https://medium.com/hackmentalhealth/why-twitter-should-verif...
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I know one of the things I loved about Facebook was interacting with university-verified humans. Then it got flooded with more and more spam accounts.
I hope either these platforms or the next generation of platforms realize there is a strong opportunity for real-name policy platforms. It won't be the whole market, but I'm personally really tired of anonymous accounts. I mostly come to HN because there aren't many real-name platforms that talk about these things. Maybe that's because lots of people don't want it. I guess I just don't buy that argument. I think there's a niche for sure.
Frankly, I think Reddit could do the same and give more weight to upvotes from those that prove they’re real.
It could help with disinformation problems and with finding signal.