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I look at it differently, even if someone isn’t going around posting racist/horrible things, people and tastes change over time. I’ve been a part of fandoms tha

I look at it differently, even if someone isn’t going around posting racist/horrible things, people and tastes change over time. I’ve been a part of fandoms that are now seen as cringey or toxic. I’ve also grown up more as a person and I look back at a lot of my old comments as sophomoric. I write differently, and my opinions on things have changed as well. I’ve had people dig through my post history on sites like Reddit to try and find a “gotcha” based on some remark I made years ago. All in all, I personally feel like it is a good thing to cycle through usernames throughout life.

orange_fritter 4y ago
I'm dropping some hot takes on hacker news tonight, so I agree. Although the idea that you can stay anonymous is probably naive. Between database leaks and AI text analysis, good luck.
paledot 4y ago
> I’ve been a part of fandoms that are now seen as cringey or toxic. —BuyMyBitcoins Joking aside, there's definitely value to rotating usernames frequently. I've started using random strings on various sites because I really don't see an up side (for me) to being trackable from site to site and definitely across time. (I use very long random strings for my banking usernames because I don't trust them to have enough bits of entropy in their passwords.)