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by sseagull 532 days ago
Pretty much always fake. While the “risk” of using my real name is probably small, there’s also very little benefit to me personally if people knew who I really was, so why bother.

Exceptions: Github, maybe Stackoverflow, but it’s been a while since I’ve posted there.

I grew up on the internet in the 90s and early 2000s and the general rule then was not to give out your name and info. So I just keep following that.