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It's only bad from a privacy perspective if you are sharing things you don't want linked together or are sharing things that can be unintentionally linked back to your real life. If you are the same username across multiple sites and you want those linked together then that's just branding.

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Using the same username may allow you to manually poison your own profile to make your data less useful than a shadow profile generated through stylometry

I do this. I have a handle I've been using for 20+ years (not this one and nothing on HN) and I lie about stupid shit rather frequently.

I also also create one-off usernames in addition to my 'permanent' name. That way everybody sees the permanent name and assumes I'm too stupid/ignorant to use different names, so nobody ever suspects the other names are me. (Using different emails because I do the same thing with email addresses and - when I can afford it - phone numbers).

> It's only bad from a privacy perspective if you are sharing things you don't want linked together or are sharing things that can be unintentionally linked back to your real life

You must live in a location where you have very little fear of political oppression. If you're an Iranian or something these days the situation is very different.

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