Which one? If all of them, I’m very screwed.
If it’s only one of them, I might still be fine. I often have more than one account in each “domain” to maintain some semblance of compartmentalism. If I can’t do that, I usually don’t post much, if at all.
Meh, I don’t say anything online I wouldn’t say to your face, so the folks that know me would just be “Ya, that tracks.”
Might wind up on a few more government lists though.
Oh well. Winter is coming.
My manager would ask me: "You do not like it here? What are all those memes, videos about “Corporate life” you are posting?. + People would think that I hate everyone…
in my case they’d be right.
I don’t discriminate, if you exist I really don’t care for you.
I’d say there is, maybe, a thin line between I dont care and I hate. The core is still the same, I presume: “You do you. I do me.” Just different feeling involved.
My username is most of my real name already. All of my friends and family know this. I even make comments all the time about stuff I found on Reddit/Lemmy/Discord/etc. No one cares. Not a single person has attempted to look me up; at least no one who has admitted it.
I try to be true to myself online. It’s easy to hide behind a username, and eventually you start thinking you’re invincible; that no one will figure out who you are. And you start saying things that might hurt you or ones you love if it ever got out.
I choose to avoid that altogether and just be myself online. Keeping a username that can be tied back to myself keeps me in check and ensures I only say or do things online that people who know me in real life would respect. It helps me to be a better person, even with the anonymity that the Internet may bring.
I used to believe in this (and to a degree still do), but the idea of increasing the attack surface of unreasonable people (who seem to have become increasingly common in the last 10 years) who will do insane things like SWAT you, or doxx your personal details (like home address), or even just follow you around online to harass you has made me have second thoughts about the tradeoffs involved in this approach 🫠
Plus, you gotta be white, male, straight and cis to avoid harassment just for being who you are online. I am none of those things, so no thank you to using a traceable identity online.
This is the way. And same here. I don’t use the mask of pseudo-anonymity to be a jackass. Anyone I know who discovers my online accounts will find I interact online and IRL exactly the same way.
This is the way. And same here. I don’t use the mask of pseudo-anonymity to be a jackass. Anyone I know who discovers my online accounts will find I interact online and IRL exactly the same way.
One can use ‘pseudo-anonimity’ without being a jackass, we all better not forget that.
I mean, the issue with someone being a jackass is not their willingness to (try to) be anonymous, it’s them being a jackass.
Us forgetting that is akin to us allowing those people telling us that we should all let go of any notion of privacy and freedom of speech because ‘think of the children’. Freedom and privacy is the wrong issue, and their suppression is an even wronger solution to what’s the real problem.
Disclaimer: I use a pseudonym (the same one everywhere, even on my personal website), if you want to find any ‘jackass’ content be my guest.
honestly I act the same in real life so not much
Not. I’m pretty much the same irl and online. Anyone who knows me could probably figure out who I am based on my posts (no need to wait for a doxing!). 🤷
Meh. I like the privacy but it wouldn’t be that bad. I try not to be an asshole, and NSFW stuff, I figure it’s private more because nobody wants to see that, than to protect me personally, I am not embarrassed to be human.
ETA question this reminded me of the Father John Misty song “The Ideal Husband”.
Eh, I’m out with the important people, and I’m not one of the guys with a dick pic as my profile picture.
None of my nudes include face and I stand behind everything I’ve said, and I’m not that worried about it. I basically expect that one day some supercomputer will stitch it all together and create profiles for everyone based on our entire internet histories. And honestly, I don’t think it’s the quirky people with weird fetishes who’ll be screwed - it’s the mean, lying hypocrites who’ll have to stand behind the mountain of crap they’ve been spewing for decades.
I think that you should be worried more about that cup of coffee than any nudes
Oh no!
While I’ve had to deal with a few recurring bullies who really don’t like me, I doubt any of them would take it far enough to go after me IRL.
I hope.
Honestly, not that hard to figure out who I am. I know I put out enough info.
Not a problem.
Not even the tiniest bit, lol. I stand by everything I said here (and wouldn’t mind being corrected, ofc) and my friends and family know me well enough to see I’m actually trying to be cordial to y’all! Oh, and my wife ‘stalks’ me on Lemmy already. 😅
I’ve used the same IP with an Android phone (even though it’s largely neutered). I just assume that means Google knows, that My ISP knows. So the government knows. Palantir knows. Meta knows.
Zero percent screwed because I watch my mouth on my doxable account I’ll delete in 6 months ;)
I’ve already been completely screwed before Lemmy. At this point, all that could happen is me getting unscrewed.
