“I” seem to require? No. I’m deferring to the cypherpunk manifesto which rings true over and over again.
IMO, anonymity should be able to be switched on and off at will by the user. Selective disclosure using homomorphic encryption coupled with digital identity can achieve both, IMO.
In particular, businesses require anonymity in much of their chain of custody…and I think that’s fair.
I’m looking into using NOSTR on a project that was originally going to be a Lemmy fork that allows retailers to broadcast their inventories to decentralized aggregators (or even run their own).