Real name online?

Regardless of the account, anonymous or not, I assume that my identity will be revealed and post accordingly. I've been doing so since I first posted on the internet in 1990.

Not for nothing, the same is true for email and any other form of (electronic) communication.

Do I make mistakes? Absolutely! Have I regretted making a post or comment? Over the years perhaps less than a dozen times, that, or I'm getting old and feeble minded.

I try to make my contributions positive and supportive, sometimes I even manage to get the balance right between my odd sense humour and misunderstanding promulgated by online communication with strangers.

For some accounts I do. For most I don't.

Fuck no.

My comments wouldn't differ, but I'd be too likely to have to shoot some moron that can't leave the internet on the internet.

Never. I have a very rare first Name and the combination with my last Name is unique. I also have cut contact with my abusive family so I don't want them to find me.

I kinda do, my first name at least, though technically my lemmy/piefed username is a contraction of my real full name.

I use fake name generators for all accounts. I also have a system to get an email which can't be easily tied back to me.

The difference is I guess I comment with anonymous accounts.

"I lie in real life, I tell the truth with art"

Before we used our real name online cuz we wanted to be called by our name but over time we rather just have a Pen name of sorts. People still know and call us by our name but to random people it’s GarboDog. Yk?

I used to do it before but not anymore. I use pseudonyms nearly 100% of the time whenever I make an account for anything.

In case of the comments, I used to use Instagram at a time, and my Instagram has my real name, bio, and information. And as you know, there's a lot of racism and toxicism on the platform's comment sections so I have faced racism a bit. Aside from that, nothing much.