Ye who tweet under a pseudonym: how does it feel? Personally I find it strange (a bit unsettling) to interact with a person-not-person.
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I think you forename-lastname tweeters are weird, like, are they so poor in identity that they have only one
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I'm used to anons and pseudons, communicating under legalnyms is uncomfortably direct and constricting
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there's a certain comfortable personal distance that I can choose to close under a nym, I do not have that under a legalnym
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in fact I expect legalnym identities to be less of a 'person' online because social coercion works better on them
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(As I use the term "person," social coercion is at the heart of it. meltingasphalt.com/personhood-a-g )
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ah! yeah I suppose you don't need to be a person when there's nobody to perform identity at (I sing to myself when alone)
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