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This resonates. Unlike casual hate, harassment is very deliberate. It represents a big investment of time and focus on the part of harasser, spanning several years. And the harasser is usually not a rando, but someone you know, who hides behind large numbers of anonymous accountshttps://twitter.com/hankgreen/status/1303485189922848769 …
The reason why anonymity on social media is toxic isn't so much that can't know who someone is, but that a single person can quickly turn themselves into a "crowd". On Reddit, there's not even an email verification step, so it's trivial to quickly create thousands of accounts.
This can be used to shill something and create the illusion of popularity, to spread rumors about someone, or create the illusion that dozens of people are haters of someone. And this can all be done by a single person in a few hours.
In @nealstephenson's Fall, there's a bot-network that tries to drown out harassers by creating billions of harassing posts and memes for a few weeks.
It's a serious problem. The two big schools of solutions might be (1) more identity validation or (2) more defensive bot-noise.
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