Ask HN: What is your alter ego?
I’m dabbling [0], and like it[1].
0. https://www.tatatap.com/blog/santa-joins-tap/
1. https://www.indiehackers.com/post/why-i-hired-santa-082136cfc4
0. https://www.tatatap.com/blog/santa-joins-tap/
1. https://www.indiehackers.com/post/why-i-hired-santa-082136cfc4
I had switched my old username, a pormanteau of my first and last name, to "dontbenebby" for a trip to Defcon, intending to get a new job and for it to be a bit of a joke - oh look, I started tweeting like a guest on Chapo Trap House for the weekend when my followers were mostly a mix of academics and/or K Street Bluechecks, not like, my actual friends.
It was quite the wild ride, and to this day I'm kind of passive aggressively doing a purposeful context collapse because I'm angry folks did not respect the spirit of that username switch, which I did to protect some very vulnerable people around the same time I deleted my Facebook + Instagram and did some other things I won't detail here to cloud my digital trail.
If I knew how people would abuse the spirit of that gesture... I wouldn't have ever done the things I did between now and then. I'd have gotten on a plane to Thailand or something and spent the Trump administration on a beach.