Your Lemmy/Reddit/Fetlife/etc profile is tied to your real name and browsable. How screwed are you?

[oka@sopuli.xyz]

OP, is there something you're hiding?

[postmortal_pop@lemmy.world]

I've been using this handle longer than I've been using my real name. If you really want me you can find me.

[givesomefucks@lemmy.world]

Swear words are actually handled by a separate ancillary language center in the brain...

You're not being crude, you're just using your whole fucking brain

[cobysev@lemmy.world]

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.

[icedraktajino@startrek.website]

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.

[baduhai@sopuli.xyz]

Eh, not very. If you look hard enough you can already find out my real name from my Lemmy account.

[scottmeme@sh.itjust.works]

Fuckin giga brain

[slazer2au@lemmy.world]

Not as much as you think. It is already pretty closely tied toy name.

[tpyoman@lemmy.world]

Everyone knows my nickname. It would be trivial to find my shit online.

[rodgegrabthecat@sh.itjust.works]

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

[misterneon@lemmy.world]

I would be chased off Lemmy.

[iww4@lemmy.zip]

Not at all

[stovetop@lemmy.world]

A few of my coworkers might be judgy of my hobbies, but other than that, I don't do anything here on Lemmy that people I know would care about.

[lustyargonianmana@lemmy.world]

The people who stalk me online and fantasize about killing me are the bigger issue than my family etc finding out (who already know about my lifestyle). However, it would be extremely hard for them to physically locate me regardless and even harder for them to actually harm me so whatever, I'm not cool with it but it probably wouldn't impact me

[_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works]

I don't think anyone would really care but me and mainly because I'm kinda shy.

[001guy001@sh.itjust.works]

With my family/peers - not at all.

With psychopaths in power and their supporters/goons - mildly to very.

[walrusdragononabike@reddthat.com]

No one cares. Not a single person has attempted to look me up; at least no one who has admitted it.

Cant imagine anyone who knows me bothering to look through much. I have had accounts where it certainly would be a problem if they were just widely known to belong to me, but even then there's a couple irl people who know of them and haven't bothered trying to look through it.

if we were just talking about this account being widely known to belong to me, the biggest change would be getting outed as trans at work. Not exactly sure how well that would go.

[diva@lemmy.ml]

Everyone already knows I'm like this