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Every account you ever had, every post/comment you ever posted, now has your real name, a photo of you, and your address, all just magically show up on the webpage right next to each of your posts/comments (also, no "hacking" could hide the info). All deleted posts/comments are magically restored and nothing you do (short of permanently shutting down the website and physical destruction of the servers) can delete them. (Any edits would still show every change you made.) How fucked are you?

And don't think about changing your name, or moving, all this info updates in real time. (for "magic" reason)

(You also cannot delete any future posts.)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Meh. Only the NSFW stuff I guess, but nothing that I wouldn't tell someone if they really wanted to know.

But I stay off Facebook because I'm not interested in having an online presence or profile, so I guess in the sense of suddenly being thrust into that world at all, not related to the content I've posted just the literal online presence - that would bother me more, and the threat of violence or crime from being more visible like that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I know I did. Brryuck

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

But it's past me, I swear. Reckless acts of a younger man.

Yeah, it's crazy how much a person can change in 20 minutes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Not very much. Not that I'm proud of what I posted on the internet when I was a teen but it's nothing extreme.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Honestly not really. Most of my online accounts are already known by friends and are used by me with that knowledge in mind. The ones that aren't are a bit more personal but not wild enough to actually mess anything up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I'll finally get my blog back! Also some cringy facebook stuff, but it'll be worth it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

What the fuck, Pedro ?!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Ah, my username is my legal name and there are pictures of me in my account. My username everywhere is my legal name, cause I think I lack imagination.

So I guess I’m fucked exactly this much, which doesn’t seem like a lot.

I generally get left alone. Everyone worries about their own personal problems enough to have time to bother someone random on the internet.

Edit: if I post my address, someone’s gonna ring my doorbell and scare my birds, so you’re not getting it. I’m in the Portland metro area though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I really believe the things I say.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I wish it was true that nothing can be truly deleted on the internet. The reality is so very much has been posted and long since lost. There are some things I wish I could find traces of, but are likely lost to the vastness of the internet. Of course, you should treat everything like it cannot be deleted, but the reality is many things can, and have been, entirely deleted.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

everyone, everywhere, all at once

Lol. Its just you.

(is that a reference to the movie?)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Minorly inconvenienced. A lot of comments riddled with typos appear, and I'm vulnerable to normal doxxing. I have a few spicy takes, but nothing that jeopardizes a relationship with anyone I'm not willing to confront about it. Still rather not be doxxed out of principle.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I regularly enter fighting game tournaments under this name, and my face has been on stream several times. While I'd prefer not to keep my full name and identifying info too easy to find, if someone wanted to track me down they probably already could using that.

I don't have anything too embarassing to expose either. My worst crime is arguing with people on the internet way too much, but I don't think anyone's going to have much reason to want to go after me for that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

doubt something would happen

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I'm not crazy, we all agreed you are in fact the crazy one. Also MW2 lobbies were a different time...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Im completely fucked, I have said a lot of things that are very critical of the "Israeli" government and occupation (I live under their occupation). Also Bibi isnt exactly kind to critiques, I would probrally be suicided the next day. After being revealed and it being that public id probrally have a few hours to publish a manifesto before a Mossad agent neutralizes me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

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.

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