When I made a social media account on a centralized platform, it asked for my sensitive information. I was alarmed and troubled at the idea that my information is banked somewhere in a datacenter some part of the world. Then I kept registering to more social media platform because I want to use those sites too and they asked the same thing. I felt guilty the first time so I did it more than 30 times and stopped counting. Then I saw the government I work for also requires me to give my sensitive information making me do paperwork and go to different departments to accomplish a simple task as getting a verified ID. Yeah, people freely give their info even in a decentralized platform, what a shocker that is that I'd get to see vanity tiktok vids and puckered lip selfies as a norm on social media.
Point? Inconvenience is relative. If I get stopped by a checkpoint by an officer, that's inconvenience but not necessarily an evil. If I can get my VISA by going through shitty systems short term in exchange for traveling around the world long term, I don't think I'd be minding the short term trouble. That goes for users that portray a personality that is unverified here.
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