Two things are true:

• anything I write in here, I’ll have a shouting match about on the B train at 1 in the morning on a Tuesday with a good friend who’s smart and funny and, sadly, very wrong about the proper way to test a peacock for colour-blindness. IT’S COLOURED BUGS, CARL! COLOURED! BUGS! !GHAWD!!

• randos who hear it will form negative opinions about me. And that’s okay until - with my luck - they’re my interviewer the next day.

I’m okay with those two things being true. One of my worst interviewers became my boss and a very excellent friend, so there’s that.

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.

The most damaging thing would be admitting how much time I spend here

Very. Google is now summarizing everything it knows about you.

honestly I act the same in real life so not much

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. 😅

Although I like anonymity Im one of those people that really does not have the energy for multiple faces. I don’t think many people would be surprised who is behind Hue Manne.

Honestly, not that hard to figure out who I am. I know I put out enough info.

Not a problem.

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!). 🤷

I’m in the US right now, wouldn’t be fun to get deanonymized.

Edit: Note to Mods: this is about legal issues and civil rights infringement, so its not really “political”, but I’ve hidden it in a spoiler tag so people don’t have to read it if they don’t want to.

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.

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.

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.

Not much. I’ve made it a rule not to say anything on the internet that I’d be ashamed to say IRL. Other posters have recognised me from real life a couple of times and it’s been no big deal.

I was once part of a community for making very crass jokes about sensitive topics, but given that the entrance is plastered with warnings about what you’re going to find inside, I hope people would take it in its proper context.

I’m good. Me online and irl is pretty much the same.