Where is Margot Robbie when you need her?

Does it matter? Anyone will draw whatever conclusion they want from written words.
Any post made represents a train of thought created in that moment, for that moment.

We like to overanalyze stuff and inferr suppositions, create entire lifetimes based on fragments of text. But more often than not, there is no hidden meaning, no greater link to map out. Though it’s fun to imagine there is.

The online medium is fantasy. A separate dimension from reality. A glimpse into past moments that most of us rarely even think of while out there actually living. Shitposts, trolls, memes, bots, insights into the human psyche and so on, all mushed up together where you can’t even tell the true from the false.
A simple truth is that everyone online is a lie. Whether spurred by anonymity or cowed by social expectations, the online persona is a default mask we craft for ourselves, perhaps even unknowingly.

Some say it’s who they truly are, free or the debts and responsibilities of real life. But it’s not completely true. Hiding this inner self is part of who we are, though we like to reject it. These posts, these thoughts are pieces of what we need to express, a lashing out at the norms that bound us we do not agree with. Yet they do not represent us, not fully.
Just as in a sudden moment of pain, we express the emotion through a verbal release of vulgarities, so too are these written declarations the release of that painful constriction society holds over our words and deeds.

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TL;DR: Always.

I’m more my real self online than I am in the real world.

I’m that Nigerian price that offered to share some of my fortune if you had just helped me

Me on Lemmy. But it’s not intentional, my username has a long back story and i use Daria as my pfp, just because i liked how annoyed she looks in it.

So, i suppose most would assume a woman behind my account, but I’m a man. I don’t want to misrepresent myself, but I have used this username for decades, never really thought it could be a problem, other than using it on a dating site. That would just be dumb, for obvious reasons. It depends on the context. If i were to participate in a discussion where it matters, i obviously would make it clear, from the beginning, that I’m a man. Like commenting in a community aimed at women, where you expect mainly women.

So, i usually don’t start every comment explaining my username, just to avoid misunderstandings from the beginning.

I do generally relate more to women. I don’t like cars, i envy the excessive fashion options women have, I’ve been told to have a very feminine view on things, for example. It’s very natural for me, since my parents raised me very open and tolerant to everything different or new. All things that may have contributed to me choosing my username and pfp so naturally, that i really never shed any thought on it. I wasn’t thinking “hehe, i’m now femanon online, let’s troll”.

Your question made me think about it and now I’m really not sure …

AIAA?

Am i behaving in a deceiving way? Should i take it more seriously, like really care if I’m being perceived as a woman or a man by others, in conversations, where it’s completely irrelevant if I’m an woman or a man?

Truthfully, never, I’m always honest, but I’m also an advocate for data poisoning and obfuscation. One of these sentences is false.

Obviously I hide my identity but that means not telling everything about myself. I don’t need to lie about it.

I don’t think I misrepresent anything. I comment as myself. Only thing that comes to mind is that I like defending positions that are ethically correct but have bad optics so for example defending Elon Musk when people here spread misinformation about him despite the fact that I don’t particularly even like the guy. It’s understandable that people make false assumptions about me because of it but I don’t really care. That’s on them.

Never. I’m perfectly honest and reliable

I generally present myself as a stable and reasonable person, so quite a lot.

I’m not actually some pixelated anthro wolf thing. Sorry for ruining the magic.

Saying dumb shit that I regret later through? Yeah, that’s me irl as well.

Hmmm, I’d say I always IRL and online Try to be a decent person so by that, never. However there are plenty of things I say to create a persona online simply because it’s fun, goofy and harmless. If I’m feeling goofy or want to commit to a bit, such as my earlier comments on this profile fitting in bugles anywhere I could because I thought of a funny username.

Is that misrepresenting myself? Probably by technicality. Although I can be goofy IRL too so bit of yes, bit of no, depending on how close you wanna define it

Yes, for anyone doxxing me, everything I say on the Internet is true. I am a middle aged lawyer with brown hair and three children.

I bend the truth a little to avoid getting Doxxed, but nothing major.

If I ever made someone online believe I’m a happy and optimistic person then I apologize for the misunderstanding.

I lie about everything… Even this comment is a lie.

In all seriousness, I do enough misdirection that it would be difficult to figure out who I am. But not impossible. Once in a while I’ll post something that is completely out of character for me, just to throw off anyone that may actually know me.

Here is an example of why:

I have a former coworker fishing for me on Reddit and he is unaware that I no longer post on that site, or even have an account. A friend of mine clued me in to one of former coworker’s posts which mixed a bit of truth in with some massive delusional lies. So once in a while I’ll pull up his Reddit account to see if there is anything I need to send to my lawyer. Yeah, it’s one of those situations. The post I was originally made aware of made my lawyer giddy and he was disappointed that I declined to set him loose. Former Coworker is a narcissistic loser that lives credit card payment to credit card payment anyway. The best way to deal with a narcissist is with indifference.

So yeah, my posts are true to the point where identifiable information is needed. Then I mis-direct.