How would you feel about the addition of an anonymous posting feature on Lemmy?

I personally don't see the value. If I'd want to talk about stuff, I don't want my username associated with, maybe
the internet is not the right place to have this discussion or
I wouldn't want it associated to my account by any means, so would most likely create a burner account.
I also wonder if it wouldn't make moderation harder?
- I think there is a misunderstanding here. I didn't say that there is no value in discussing commonly suppressed or censored topics on the internet. I said that I would not want them associated with my regular account, which I believe is a good practice, especially if discussing said things could put you at risk.

- This is exactly how I feel.
  I HATE it when people respond to the commenter and not the comment.

It already is? Just create an anonymous account.
- Technically psuedonymous but gets the job done

Anonymity generally just gives people a pass to be even bigger assholes. I'm good.
- Yeah that's what people really want to do. They want to feel more at home like they're on Reddit so yeah, let them be bigger assholes and get away with it.

Wouldn't mind, as long as there's a (default on?) setting to hide anon posts and comments.
- You could learn from this person, since all your other responses are adversarial.
- Can’t you hide new accounts or just show they’re new?

It would be basically an imageboard like 4chan. Those have their advantages and disadvantages. I think it should be a thing in principle but communities should be allowed to say they don't want anonymous posts.

How would blocking / muting work? I imagine anonymous posts to be, on average, worse that even burner-account posts.

@Hayley566@lemmyusa.com are you just asking a lot of questions to keep us busy? Or are you reading this, just not commenting (yet)?

How big the total lemmy userbase? We're already anonymous.
- pseudonymous, not anonymous, we still know which things were posted by the same person (or rarely people sharing an account) and if someone discovers someone's IRL identity they know who posted all things that Lemmy user posted

I'd be in favor of it. With a federated platform it's impossible to keep someone from spinning up per-interaction accounts so we essentially need to deal with the costs of allowing anonymity anyway. It could be implemented in such a way that your host instance can connect the interaction with an account if there was some advantage to that but banning an account created to post something offensive and a moderator removing an anonymous post that's offensive are pretty much the same action - and if a particular account was egregiously abusive there are technical ways we could allow the host instance to ban the user without compromising anonymity for other unbanned anonymous posts.
Oh, anonymous DMs should be absolutely disallowed. That'd just be an open invitation to dick pic spamming but, as nearly any open woman on the internet will tell you dick pic spamming is a constant issue.
Basically, it really wouldn't make any kind of abuse easier and even if it was significantly abused to bypass needing to do account sign-ups for trolling there are pretty simple technical solutions to fix it.