With how off the rails this went, perhaps an identity per platform might be in order.
this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2026
-15 points (10.5% liked)
No Stupid Questions
49729 readers
881 users here now
No such thing. Ask away!
!nostupidquestions is a community dedicated to being helpful and answering each others' questions on various topics.
The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:
Rules (interactive)
Rule 1- All posts must be legitimate questions. All post titles must include a question.
All posts must be legitimate questions, and all post titles must include a question. Questions that are joke or trolling questions, memes, song lyrics as title, etc. are not allowed here. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.
Rule 2- Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material.
Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.
Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.
Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.
Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.
That's it.
Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.
Questions which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.
Rule 6- Regarding META posts and joke questions.
Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-question posts using the [META] tag on your post title.
On fridays, you are allowed to post meme and troll questions, on the condition that it's in text format only, and conforms with our other rules. These posts MUST include the [NSQ Friday] tag in their title.
If you post a serious question on friday and are looking only for legitimate answers, then please include the [Serious] tag on your post. Irrelevant replies will then be removed by moderators.
Rule 7- You can't intentionally annoy, mock, or harass other members.
If you intentionally annoy, mock, harass, or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.
Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.
Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.
Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.
Let everyone have their own content.
Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here. This includes using AI responses and summaries.
Credits
Our breathtaking icon was bestowed upon us by @Cevilia!
The greatest banner of all time: by @TheOneWithTheHair!
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
It's... already partially unintentionally true. One name for IRC and forums (plus stuff prompted by said forums), one for a browser game or two, and this one for everything else. Although are you suggesting I should literally use a random nickname generator for each service? What if I want to cross reference something across them? Also, would imagine multitasking being one hell of a pain. I mean, I can spawn multiple Tor Browser instances and stuff, but then have to make sure I am doing the intended thing in each one. I am a bit of a "social chameleon" and I am already struggling with just using only the correct inside jokes with someone...
If you can't moderately well ensilo your online identity, then definitely nuke them regularly.
I'm lucky with this name that I'm not the only person using it across the entire internet. It obfuscates me more than it might otherwise. But you gotta protect yo neck. If you're gong to us the same name a lot, don't provide identifying info.
Be vague, or outright lie about things that would place your location and real identity. Otherwise, burn it
My knee-jerk reaction is "yes", but keep in mind that any new identity assumed, while within the same circumstances, can be linked to your old one.
If you want to shed your old identity, then do so. But assume a temporary one, and once you jump platform, ISP, and other identifying factors, take on a "clean" username.
There's more to identification than username and IP, so if you take on a new identity, make sure that it's not possible to link the two.
Source: I'd be in prison if I hadn't.
The internet never forgets and it’s an illusion that some secret service or police force won’t be able to connect you to your past posts. AI is going to make this so much easier (scan for styles, date stamps, regular speling errors…). So sure, make a reset of your accounts, but more importantly, be careful what you post, and don’t travel to Russia if you said something mildly negative about Putin in a post five years ago.
Meh, I can talk shit about Putin all I want, everyone knows I'm Ukrainian anyway.
Although good point. I am not sure what meaning to derive from that. This specific nickname I am using right now was followed by a partial burn and partial renaming of accounts since I wasn't this paranoid (or more like aware) back then. Would this "meh, they can still find you" mean "don't bother" or..?