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divergent pseudonymity

Inspired by Tadaima's Anonymity Is Fun 🤷‍♀️.

I'm reminded of part of a conversation with Ava:

For an activity of such intrinsic publicity like blogging, I think it's easier to open yourself up over time than to narrow yourself down at any gradual rate.

I find that formalized, transparent identities quit the game more often. The flipside of one big social media footprint is numerous independent profiles decentralized or distributed across the World Wide Web. Is it time we rewild the Internet?

One enables many. Successes, digressions, and even mistakes to learn from follow said paradigm. Increasing your depth and breadth this way can accelerate your self-development, resilience, and creative expression. The interests you refine and narrow by iteration can make for easier grafting or replanting elsewhere. Roll out Twitter alt accounts, secondary YouTube channels, finstas, and similar initiatives valuing your multiplicity. Play with fun pseudonyms, projects, and domains to build your own online theater of social media. Whether online or offline, life's a stage. You can afford to act like it.

Everyone has something to hide. Fortunately, fake details can come in handy for defensive online communication, private but conditional account creation and purchases, etc. So too can playful yet cautious secrecy. You can enjoy your creative sandboxes without divulging elsewhere. Although, when it comes to work, I say keep yourself afloat first. You can find a way to express creativity afterward even when occupations beg for full transparency. To their chagrin, while anonymity and transparency are both asymptotic, everything in between can be fair game.

Start small. Reinvest your wins into desired multiplicity. Cultivate conditions for graceful failure, such that continuing the game prevails over saying farewell.

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