Posts on NSFW communities on Burggit are inaccessible to visitors of the site who are not logged in, meaning these communities can only be browsed pseudonymously. There are two reasons why I think this restriction should be lifted:
- Security and privacy: Some people on the internet may wish not for their browsing habits to be connected to an account and may wish to minimise identifiers. Some browse the internet with cookies disabled. Some have to live paranoidly on the internet due to where they live and other life situation reasons, and these people won’t be able to enjoy the NSFW communities on Burggit.
- Discoverability: To check out NSFW communities, people have to register an account, so it’s not possible to make a decision after seeing if you like the instance. Previously, you could browse Burggit’s NSFW communities on lemmynsfw.com without an account but after they defederated, this isn’t an option either. There might be other instances you can use now, but it’s not a good idea to count on other instances for this purpose.
I’m curious about what you think about this.
Couldn’t you tor in, or share one account?
It would be difficult to arrange a shared account between enough people to form a significant crowd so that every individual user, using TOR, blends in. I have just never heard of something like that happening, and I wouldn’t bet on it.
If mod tools progress to the point of being able to set up mutes, I bet a guest/guest account could work nicely