Not in here no, but on discord, steam and other more "normie" spaces, I feel wearing a big hammer and sickle announces me and if people have an issue with that they tend to make the first move. I feel like in those sort of places being boldly commie does a lot of work in either shutting people up or forcing them to expose their ignorance
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i just googled "funny horse" and that was it
my discord one is my fursona, which is not actually a horse
hehe
If you can't be him, are you the cat in the picture? /j
The kitty holds a power too immense. I cannot match the power of Chairman Meow.
On lemmy my profile picture is a bird, as I want to focus on more serious and educational topics rather than hobbies. I think a nature themed profile picture fits
You chose a really cool bird
I just needed something that was easy to notice and relatively good at giving an impression.
I change my profile pic, or avatar, or whatever else semi-frequently across different platforms as I just enjoy customization in general.
I'm the kind of person who spends like a third of my playtime on a game in charecter customization and clothing options if given a choice.
In general online, not really, though it's probably a good idea to think more in those terms than in terms of personal identity obsession.
On here, it was somewhat intentional not having a profile pic and being named as I am. I don't remember quite how I put it in the form you fill out to join, but IIRC, it was something along the lines of poking at fame of a name in relation to revolutionary figures; like the weirdness of being some average person and then having statues made of you and stuff because you happened to be a person who rose to prominence. So it being literally a memorable name but also not one at all due to its lack of specificity and meta silliness is a sort of anti-fame, anti-ego thing for me.
Not that there's anything inherently wrong with someone rising to prominence as a result of being an effective revolutionary, but that happens from being a skilled organizer, not from posting a lot. And I believe that if people listen to what I have to say in an online pseudo-anonymous capacity, it should be because it's a good take, not because I said it. The ones who deserve that level of trust are the ones who have proven themselves as known leaders of a vanguard, whose words are proven to be closely connected to substantial action that has materially improved people's lives, using the science of dialectical and historical materialism. In the capacity I have takes here, I am at best a teacher trying to help with learning, while also trying to learn more myself.
That said, it's not like I'm going around judging other posters for how they named themselves. It's just a thought process I went through when choosing my own name.
That makes sense. I recall that Stalin, Lenin and others used aliases a lot in their works and mostly disliked the cult of personality that formed around them, so I think they would agree with you. But to add to your point, I think names help with accountability as well, since we present ourselves to the world using them.
That's a fair point.
i turned those off the day they were added
i see it as an alias
I just got this profile and name because it was cute.