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.
> 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.)
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.
It’s not so much of a benefit, as that some of us simply don’t care what others think. Actions speak louder than words and all that.
A Internet comment from 10 years ago might cost you a job, or it might cost a friendship. But at least I’m not living a facade about being a perfect and flawless individual, and that helps me sleep better at night.
Seems like the solution is built-in to their strategy. If you get accused of being racist because a racist on twitter uses the same handle, just make a new handle and start over.
