Phoronix needs to shut down their comment section it has always been a cesspit of morons

People have really weird usernames sometimes

True, but there are other benefits too. Bots can’t crawl through your likes for example. Maybe you want a feature on lemmy or mastodon or whatever with anonymous polling? (ik masto has polls but for sake of argument) Maybe you’re implementing anonymous polling into an app for a trade union that needs total anonymity even from admins? It’s not totally unusual!

IMO it makes sense to do this at a platform level just because there’s a unified implementation of obfuscation across all the fediverse for any platforms that want to use, rather than a bunch of unique solutions that would be duplicated effort.

I get this is obviously intended behaviour on part of actpub but I’d love for there to be a pseudo-anonymous voting system too. Maybe an option to hash user credentials when added to likes to ensure that they’re unique whilst obfuscating the original user.

lmao they really decided to use AI slop for this. amazing lobbying by whatever startup is about to get this massive contract

jokes aside it’s probably because of US states banning porn sites, and Apple makes up for like 80% of US phones