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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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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[-] randomcruft@lemmy.sdf.org 52 points 1 month ago

No one would notice or care… 1/10 🙂

[-] 200ok@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Same. The most surprising thing might be that I even have accounts online. And that I love pictures of scrungy cats.

[-] popekingjoe@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I love pictures of scrungy cats.

Honestly, who doesn't?

[-] FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 51 points 1 month ago

I tend to enjoy being devil's advocate on controversial subjects so I'd score a 9/10 fucked through sheer misinterpretation

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 34 points 1 month ago

I spoiled a part of Infinity War back in the day, and I'd expect a 305 lb katana wielding fedora wearer to appear out of the shadows at my door. Those dudes were pissed and drunk me didn't even know I did it until the mod that banned me for a month pointed it out.

[-] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 month ago

You could take permanent sanctuary in a health food store or a gym.

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 17 points 1 month ago

Yeah, but then I'll be in a health food store or a gym.

[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 11 points 1 month ago

you did WHAT

[-] electric@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

Whether or not I am anonymous does not change how/what I post. I also never delete any so nothing changes regarding that too. Cringe to be acting uncivil because you have a mask.

[-] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Facts. I've been posting exclusively as Postmortal_Pop on every platform I've been on since 2010. If someone wants me, they'd be downright incompetent if they couldn't find me. That's my name as much as my real name.

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

You should never post anything online that you wouldn't be comfortable shouting at the top of your lungs in the middle of your hometown.

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[-] whaleross@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

Not very, unless the nazis I'm reminding people that every day is punch one of manage to wheezingly waddle up from the basement and attempt to do something about it despite my genes being more pure norse whitey aryan than they could ever dream of so attempts of me life would just be another proof of my superior intellectual reasoning to their simplistic racism tribalism.

Depending on country. In some, the nazis are already in government.

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[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 14 points 1 month ago

There's a reason why I post under my real name and never delete anything. Because your scenario has a high probability of really happening one way or another. That way I'm more conscious of the stuff I post.

A woman I know had an anonymous blog where she posted stuff about her kids without mentioning any names or showing any photos in an effort to protect them. My wife, who only knows her from her un-anonymised blog found that other blog and recognised her really quickly.

[-] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Yup, what people don't get about online privacy is that it's not about hiding things, but knowing what is exposed. If you voluntarily expose something on one account that might get tracked back to you.

[-] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 month ago

Embarrassed, but not fucked.

[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Yeah, some suspicions about my level of motivation at work would be confirmed, and my perfectly adequate but kinda basic neighbors might realize it's not just my being awkward AF that keeps me from hanging out more, but that's probably the worst of it. Half the things I delete are to make it slightly harder to dox me than it is now, and most of the rest are things I've said elsewhere but don't feel like defending point-by-point in that particular thread.

[-] DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago
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[-] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago

Ehhh, I would be shunned by 2 or 3 family members, which might be a net benefit. I hope the former Oklahoma governor's daughter doesn't come after me. I'm more scared of that waxen pale nepobaby more than anyone else. She's got the money and time to cause havoc, the others do not.

[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Wait, how is she the governers former daughter?

[-] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

Ya got me, maybe she started being former when her mom failed to be reelected and the money dried up. ;)

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago

I'd be fine. I've always been aware of the tenuous nature of being anonymous online.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Same. My friends already have the ability to easily find all the dumb shit I post online if they cared to and nothing I've posted would cause any legal trouble, just piss off some bigots and those who don't understand that crude internet humor is just humor. James Gunn's old posts have me beat and he's still doing alright.

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month 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.

[-] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month 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.

[-] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 8 points 1 month ago

I'm sure I'd be screwed. Just by the nature of the internet, someone in the various posts would find something that would enrage them enough to hunt me down and throw a cocktail at my house. Even if only one person in a million is insane and bent on revenge, overall I have enough posts that they'd come in contact with it. I'd for sure lose my job, since we have seen it happen on social media sites with folks' real names attached.

Luckily, most of the comments I've made have been on sites that have permanently shut down, so I would escape the worst of my years becoming public knowledge.

Now, if it wasn't just me, I'm sure I'd be lost in the relatively blase nature of my comments.

[-] kava@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month 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

[-] Hello_there@fedia.io 7 points 1 month 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.

[-] OmegaSunkey@ani.social 7 points 1 month ago

doubt something would happen

[-] Presi300@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

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.

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[-] Free_Opinions@feddit.uk 6 points 1 month 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.

[-] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 6 points 1 month ago

You know I don't really know.

Pretty certain my ex would be upset. My lack of sympathy for the death of that CEO could get me in trouble with my job maybe.

If people I know didn't think of me as a loner weird guy before they would now.

Hell I haven't even posted a witty response to a comment on like a pornhub video or anything.

Im too boring to get fucked :/

[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 6 points 1 month ago

I am like this in public and in person. No impact.

[-] Boozilla@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

Guessing 2/10. Real name is very common. I've made plenty of shitty and dumb comments over the years, but it would simply be embarrassing and that would be it. I don't hold any important or public positions.

[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Meh. Someone might learn some of my naughty preferences, but I don't think anything would ruin me.

[-] JWBananas@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month 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.

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I don't think I've really ever deleted anything that wasn't just a simple mistake (e.g. duplicate post or whatever) so I'm not worried about much there

I guess some people in my life might not realise quite how left wing I am, but I've not really kept it under wraps to anyone that's asked.

I assume I'll probably get targeted more by identity thieves and similar, which ultimately will probably be the biggest thing to fuck me over about the whole situation

[-] kalkulat@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

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

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[-] Glasgow@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

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.

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[-] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month 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.

[-] bizarroland@fedia.io 4 points 1 month ago

I'm pretty good.

Worst case my family finds out I've been talking shit about them behind their back, but they're all a bunch of fuckers except for my brother and even he's kind of iffy.

Other than a couple of questionable porn likes I don't really have anything I would be embarrassed to have publicly known about myself.

[-] kittenzrulz123 4 points 1 month 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.

[-] Corno@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month 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.

[-] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

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

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