Reddit Inc. as usual demonstrating that it does not know its site’s biggest strengths and weaknesses.
In Reddit, you are what you post. It’s essential to be able to see the others’ profiles; that gives them context on how to interpret what you say.
Hiding profiles is not an even remotely good privacy feature - because you shouldn’t be sharing private information in Reddit on first place. And it doesn’t work well to address harassment either; the thing with harassment in Reddit is mostly many-against-one, not one-against-one.
because you shouldn’t be sharing private information in Reddit on first place.
Or anywhere, but this setting may lull people into a false sense of security.
Like hiding who put in upvotes and downvotes on Lemmy. “It’s private! Don’t worry! Anyone who looks at the votes is being bad!”
