Multiple Online Identities
The cluster discusses the importance and practice of maintaining separate pseudonymous online identities or personas to compartmentalize different aspects of life, such as professional, personal, or controversial activities, often in contrast to systems enforcing single real-name or linked identities.
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Kind of ironic that you are pitching this with an ID you created 16 hours ago. Clearly there are some interactions you don't want tied back to your real life identity.
What's stopping you from maintaining multiple identities?
Have a different online identity that's not associated with yourself?
You may have different personas that you want to separate. Ie your identity as a local county representative, your identity with a socialist online forum, your identity as employee, your identity as someone discussing weird sexual kinks.For all you need to identify but you don not want them to be linkable to each other or your government-issued ID.This is part of why relying on phone number validation for gatekeeping is an issue. (Try registering at Discord or Twitter via tor. I'll wa
Don't a lot of us create throwaway accounts when posting something we don't want associated with us forever? :)
imho deleting social profile is not an option anymore. Other guy could make it look like yours. It just too suspicious to not have online profile. Double identity is the key. Just be one kind citizen for the system. Generate likes and upload kittens.
Well obviously you need to not use the same usernames/emails with your other identities. What does that have to do with IP addresses?
People can have multiple online identities. It’s like applying for a job and not giving your “fun” reddit username.
If I am not mistaken, I personally maintain at least 3 distinct identities on the net. I think I might have more than that, one-off accounts made with a one-off email for some site that I've forgotten. And I make VERY certain to never ever mention anything about one identity on a communication channel used by the other identities. One of those I only ever use through private browsing mode to avoid leaking cookies to sites that track these things. Relatedly I suspect some of the people I kno
Why can't they bind your account to your real life identity, for the purposes of preventing duplicates, but keep it private?