That&#x27;s kind of missing the point. For casual communities, it&#x27;s easier to just not post.<p>I don&#x27;t <i>care</i> enough about posting that awesome recipe for brussel sprouts with bacon lardons to go through the effort of setting up a custom domain so I can sign up for an anonymized facebook account so that I don&#x27;t have to worry if it will show up in my family member&#x27;s news feeds. I barely care enough to tweak facebook settings to keep it hidden. I also don&#x27;t necessarily want to share who I am, where I work, what my other hobbies are, and so on to the world, which means that in the absence of a good anonymous forum implies that I&#x27;d prefer to keep my posts restricted to a more private audience, so I don&#x27;t necessarily feel like posting with my facebook account.<p>As the weakly anonymous communities are dying or shrinking, the separation of &quot;who I am&quot; and &quot;what I do&quot; makes it more difficult to share the interesting things I know publicly without exposing my real world identity.<p>Since I don&#x27;t care much, the post doesn&#x27;t happen, and I move on with my day. And the internet is a little bit poorer for it. I suspect that lots of little dyanmics and frictions like this are what&#x27;s killing the &#x27;old way Americans used the internet&#x27;.<p>It&#x27;s theoretically possible to fight this. But for almost all casual content, the friction is just not worth overcoming.