[est]

> If you post something to social media, it will be simultaneously visible to your boss, your parents, your ex, and total strangers

Isn't that what G Wave/ G+ trying to solve?

I think a better option would be: don't tie your IRL identity for online communications.

[shipman05]

I think many social sites have tried to solve it, but in a world where anything is easily saved or screenshotted, it's still effectively a "universal room". Not to mention that properly implementing a form of role-based access control is a big ask for a lot users.

Not tying your IRL identity to online communications only solves one side of the problem. You can't use your anon accounts to communicate as yourself to family, friends, and colleagues and maintain your anonymity.

Not having accounts tied to IRL identity also allows AI bots to operate as equals to human users, which dilutes the quality of conversation in those spaces.

We've built an incredibly effective communications apparatus. It's a shame its only users are money-obsessed primates and the robots we've built in our image.

[inigyou]

In Europe the operator of a website that is not purely personal is required to write their full name and address on the website. This is also bad in the opposite direction.

[pepperoni_pizza]

In Germany only.

[cwmoore]

Don’t forget the agents of corporate persons have their “voice” too.

[amarant]

Google had a platform called circles once that had a really neat solution to this.

If course it being Google, it got cancelled before it had a chance to catch on.

[dredmorbius]

The platform was called "Google+". The feature was called "Circles".

[amarant]

Really? Huh.... Memory is a fickle thing, isn't it?

[dredmorbius]

There is Dave Eggers's book (and film adaptation) The Circle, which I understood as largely commentary on Google rather than other tech firms, though it's also described as an amalgam of several others. That might be steering your fickle memory ;-)

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Circle_(Eggers_novel)#Film...>