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1. ⠴Ninjatrappeur⠦ (ninjatrappeur@social.alternativebit.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 03-May-2023 07:26:22 UTC ⠴Ninjatrappeur⠦

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   I'm also considering giving all these identities up and just use my AFK name (or a unique new nick attached to my AFK identity).
   
   I'm afraid about publicly displaying some of my technical interests. I fear it could backfire in some way in the future (note: I'm not doing anything illegal, I'm just uncomfortable displaying some of my interests).
   
   That being said, being a freelance software developer, I know for sure that I missed some professional opportunities because people where not aware about certain parts of my skillset/interests. Parts I do using a pseudo-anonymous screen name.
   
   Also, most of the people I look up to as professional role models don't do that. I'm wondering whether this could come from a sociopath trait I should try to mute and instead accept to display my interests online in a honest way.
   
   I think the TL;DR is that despite I owe my profesional carreer to internet, I'm still very affraid of the concept of exposing myself on it :/ Sad state of things.
   • ⠴Ninjatrappeur⠦ (ninjatrappeur@social.alternativebit.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 03-May-2023 07:26:23 UTC ⠴Ninjatrappeur⠦
     I like to segment my online identities. Usually one nick/identity per projects cluster. This Ninjatrappeur nick being the "historical" one attached to my AFK identity/company.
     
     I started doing that during my teens, when this way of operating was actually the norm. Along the years, I tried several ways to keep my identities separated: segmented user accounts on my main machine, VMs, 1 machine per identity.
     
     Each of these techniques have upsides and downsides, none is perfect. Different unix accounts won't work if I want to change my distribution for a given community. VMs are annoying for graphical application/weird hardware tricks. Using 1 physical machine per project force me to use outdated hardware for certain projects, making hacking on them tedious.
     
     Hence this cry for help: do you segment your online identities? How do you keep up the identity nice and tidy? I'd be interested in hearing about your setup, there's very little literature on that matter online.