Personally, if someone introduced themselves to me using some online name like “Potato Robot” I would stop talking to them. But I don’t speak for others
you could just call me Mr.Krabs! That's kind of normal right?
Nah, I met a friend at a hacker space who used an alias, and didn't find out his real name for years. At that point though everyone just kept calling him by the alias out of habit, so just bear in mind that if you introduce yourself under an alias you might be stuck with it for a while
I call my closest friends by their discord handles like half the time.
It’s just a Discord account
i think you answered your own post there
Nah I have a name I use online/for band stuff that a good number of people IRL only know me as
Nah.
I go by an online handle for friend groups, despite knowing several of them IRL
With my 'core' friend group I go by a weird nickname unrelated to my real name (and, tbh, I basically consider it my "real" name, in the sense of mostly what I call myself in my head)
With my family, I go by a 'normal' nickname based on my legal name
And professionally, I go by my full legal name (because its very professional sounding (aka very white))
like half of my irl friends know me only by my middle name from when i went through a phase of preferring it
all my close friends call me nat underscore turner underscore overdrive
It's a little funny but I think anyone who's a real one won't mind. If I may ask, why are you doing it? Opsec? Do you like the discord name better? Something else? This changes the answer somewhat
Yeah that's fine. I'd introduce yourself as "I go by ________" and not "I'm _________" or "My name is ________" for clarity.
This reminds me of all my college friends going off to law school or their careers or whatever and trying to go by the more ‘adult’ versions of their names but they all immediately slip up and introduce themselves as their nickname they’re used to going by and now only the most snobbish people in their lives use their full government names
Well I am a paranoid type so when someone (not online) insists on being called by a fake name, I think they are extremely online, :gamer-gulag:, :epstein: , or :fedposting:. In any and all ways very : :amogus: .
For sure, but I use my real name irl like a normal person. BE NORMAL :ypg-brace:
I dunno, I've always thought of it as "My Name is just the name my parents gave me, it's not me and it's just as valid as any other name given in good faith." I've always gone by a number of nicknames, and never been bothered by it. There is like a handful of people who ever use my birth name. I'm more concerned with people remembering me than my name. But I'm also pretty weird so shrug
It's a little weird if you're meeting for the first time offline. If they already knew you from a different alias online, sure, but giving a fake name purely for opsec reasons is a little paranoid.
That said, it's not a big deal regardless, so I wouldn't worry about it too much.
