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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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[-] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago
[-] chronotron@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago
[-] Nemo@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

Wait, I know a Chronotron.

Them: "Wow. I can't believe jubilationtcornpone would do something like that."

Me: "Yeah, well that makes two of us. And are you seriously trying to tell me you're JUST NOW hearing about that? You actually missed my compete and total public humiliation? That was like ten years ago."

[-] Sabata11792@ani.social 3 points 1 month ago

I'm not crazy, we all agreed you are in fact the crazy one. Also MW2 lobbies were a different time...

[-] HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 2 points 1 month ago

Hm, I think I had a problematic username at one point as a dumb teen, but I like to think I'd just be a normal amount of embarassed.

[-] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 2 points 1 month ago

I'm not, it's not a secret. As for deleted comments, they're mostly just stuff I deleted because I forgot to double check a fact and realised I was wrong after posting

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm 0% fucked but that Something Awful post where Cliff Yablonski referred to me as "Human Testicle" will resurface.

I'm fine with that.

[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Lots of people have written fan-fiction worse than that!

[-] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

I know I did. Brryuck

[-] maniii@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

And the most boring life of some random person. Even if you expose all the details either it will be slightly less than cringe or complete banality.

Who would ever want to read posts of some guy who works 9 to 5 job and does nothing weekends? For some 30 years???

Internet people are weird man.

[-] Zorsith 2 points 1 month ago

Not great. Some family members would either stop talking to me, or double down once they had my address to try to "fix me".

[-] Nemo@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

0%, I post under my real name and I've only deleted comments because of accidental duplicates.

[-] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 2 points 1 month ago

As far as I know not much but the internet has been around awhile. I mean if it happened to everyone I would be much more boring than I think most. If its literally just me I assume it would be a thing because of the novelty.

[-] intro@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

I'll finally get my blog back! Also some cringy facebook stuff, but it'll be worth it.

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Meh. Only the NSFW stuff I guess, but nothing that I wouldn't tell someone if they really wanted to know.

But I stay off Facebook because I'm not interested in having an online presence or profile, so I guess in the sense of suddenly being thrust into that world at all, not related to the content I've posted just the literal online presence - that would bother me more, and the threat of violence or crime from being more visible like that.

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago

Eh. I'm basically the same online as in person.

[-] gerryflap@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago

Honestly not really. Most of my online accounts are already known by friends and are used by me with that knowledge in mind. The ones that aren't are a bit more personal but not wild enough to actually mess anything up.

[-] MotorCade93@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

I'm the same here as I am everywhere.

[-] missingno@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago

I regularly enter fighting game tournaments under this name, and my face has been on stream several times. While I'd prefer not to keep my full name and identifying info too easy to find, if someone wanted to track me down they probably already could using that.

I don't have anything too embarassing to expose either. My worst crime is arguing with people on the internet way too much, but I don't think anyone's going to have much reason to want to go after me for that.

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago
[-] Interstellar_1 1 points 1 month ago

Not very much, I assume there's already some way for my name to be associated with my online identity just due to a slipup at some point or some good social deduction, and I rarely delete things I post anyways (they can be found in the modlog)

[-] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Not very much at all. I pretty much have said whatever I wanted to my entire life- as I don’t GAFF what other people think.

[-] Firebirdie713 1 points 1 month ago

Assuming that this would cover all past legal names as well (as I have had a grand total of four, different first and last names): still not a lot.

I have changed a lot since I first started posting things on the web, and I am embarrassed about some of the older stuff that I said before I learned more about certain subjects. But (as far as I can remember), the worst comments I ever made were ones in defence of outlawing abortion, and even those I never posted hate in.

So, given that those few comments are vastly outnumbered by my more recent comments explaining why my previous stance was nonsensical, I would probably have to be more afraid of someone threatening me for being a trans person who advocates for bodily autonomy as a basic and inalienable human right.

[-] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

You can already find me from my username and I don't delete things.

You'll also find explicit pictures and a rough idea of where I live and have worked.

I'm not that interesting.

[-] zxqwas@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Not very much. Not that I'm proud of what I posted on the internet when I was a teen but it's nothing extreme.

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