Ask Lemmy

Meh. My real world would know what my digital world already knows, that I'm much more of a nerd than I portray myself as.

It's not because I purposefully hide it. It's because it's not a topic that is interesting to anyone in my real world circle of friends. I don't have real world friends who want to talk about Linux, and Open Source, and retro-video games, and all of the other stuff that I ramble on about online in forums where the peeps who understand me all hang out.

There's probably some very surprising porn habits in there as well that my real world friends and family would have NO CLUE about, but c'est la vie.

Not fucked. Of course I have some cringy stuff on MySpace from when I was in my early teens. But generally speaking, over the last two decades or so I don't post anything I wouldn't be OK with everyone finding out about

Meh. A whole bunch of cringe posts from twenty years ago will show how much I've grown since I was 19. Some more recent arguments I got tired of will rear their ugly heads. But I generally try to be the same person online as offline, and that person isn't particularly controversial, at least around the circles I run in.

But there would be a lot of people who would be in bodily danger.

I'm not. My real, full name is already on certain web accounts right next to "Tattorack", which is the online handle I use everywhere.

Im not fucked because nobody gives a shit about me. If people actually start looking me up, it'll probably create the most traffic to my art pages I've ever had.

No one would notice or care… 1/10 🙂

Depends on the statute of limitations on drug trafficking I guess.

Ya'll are gonna have to travel pretty fucking far to fight me. Welcome to the Tundra.

I tend to enjoy being devil's advocate on controversial subjects so I'd score a 9/10 fucked through sheer misinterpretation

Eh. I'm basically the same online as in person.

Let's go mfer. I said some cringy shit on Facebook when I was a teenager but I'll own up to em. Largely, I stand by my opinions, doesn't matter if my name is attached to them or not, I say what I feel and what I feel doesn't change based on whether I have a name tag on or not.

I might find myself suddenly on some governmental lists of some interest, especially considering how vocally I have been speaking out against our incoming government, but other than that? I wear my past with pride. I'll admit when I was wrong and stand by my opinions that still deserve them, and chuckle over some bad takes from the past, but I feel no shame in this arena.

My real name is so generic, even if I doxxed myself you wouldn't find me anywhere.

Everyone I know IRL already knows my online identity.

Noooo it was sooo difficult to find how to delete my Facebook account. With warnings like "people losing Facebook often loose their social life, are you really sure?". And now my nearly empty page is back you say? Cringe.

But I'm not fucked, I try to treat people online like I treat people in real life, like I want people to treat me. I'm not scared of a heated discussion but I prefer to stay civil. So if people want to look me up, that's fine, I make great coffee.

I only have issues with people who do not respect my boundaries so I prefer to keep them out of my life. But my mom already knows where I live, so still no harm done when my address is posted online.

Not all that much, as I already use my real name. I tend to only post things that I believe in, and I've never really been one to hide my feelings from people.

I spoiled a part of Infinity War back in the day, and I'd expect a 305 lb katana wielding fedora wearer to appear out of the shadows at my door. Those dudes were pissed and drunk me didn't even know I did it until the mod that banned me for a month pointed it out.

I should be reasonably ok... I think. Sure, there were a few instances where I, uh... let the internet anonymity get to my head, and... used sarcasm. But it's past me, I swear. Reckless acts of a younger man.

Lots of people have written fan-fiction worse than that!

Hm, I think I had a problematic username at one point as a dumb teen, but I like to think I'd just be a normal amount of embarassed.

People will probably think I'm the most moderate right winger ever. But I'm really not. I just have hard opinions on things.

Whether or not I am anonymous does not change how/what I post. I also never delete any so nothing changes regarding that too. Cringe to be acting uncivil because you have a mask.

And the most boring life of some random person. Even if you expose all the details either it will be slightly less than cringe or complete banality.

Who would ever want to read posts of some guy who works 9 to 5 job and does nothing weekends? For some 30 years???

Internet people are weird man.

All that typing doesn't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that.

Embarrassed, but not fucked.

The only thing that would change is that people are gonna know I'm a bit less straight than I say that I am... Though I generally live life/post things, knowing it can never be deleted once it's posted on the internet so... Not much would change really.

Not very, unless the nazis I'm reminding people that every day is punch one of manage to wheezingly waddle up from the basement and attempt to do something about it despite my genes being more pure norse whitey aryan than they could ever dream of so attempts of me life would just be another proof of my superior intellectual reasoning to their simplistic racism tribalism.

Just me? Or everyone, everywhere, all at once?

Not great. Some family members would either stop talking to me, or double down once they had my address to try to "fix me".

There's a reason why I post under my real name and never delete anything. Because your scenario has a high probability of really happening one way or another. That way I'm more conscious of the stuff I post.

A woman I know had an anonymous blog where she posted stuff about her kids without mentioning any names or showing any photos in an effort to protect them. My wife, who only knows her from her un-anonymised blog found that other blog and recognised her really quickly.

Based on real life experiences with having random guys try to hit on me, I'd probably get a lot of guys DMing me.

doubt something would happen

Ehhh, I would be shunned by 2 or 3 family members, which might be a net benefit. I hope the former Oklahoma governor's daughter doesn't come after me. I'm more scared of that waxen pale nepobaby more than anyone else. She's got the money and time to cause havoc, the others do not.

I'll have some explaining to do, but I guess since everyone will have their dirty laundry out in the open, people will get quite more open-minded.

Also, people I care about know everything anyway.

I'll be okay.

Did you know you can get someone's address by typing in their email? Fuck data brokers. We need to outlaw their entire business model.

I stand behind everything I've ever said. I've been posting for years with the mindset that what OP is describing will some day be reality. I might not be correct about everything but I've always been honest. I look forward to that day and all the hypocrites being exposed.