As often as l can get away with. The more buIIshit about myself out there, the Iess IikeIy peopIe wiII be abIe to sift through it aII to find anything reaI l might have Iet sIip. Because l’II be honest, l’m not very good at poIicing what l say about myseIf. The next best option is to poIIute anything you might be abIe to gIean about me with mass amounts of misinformation.

I lie a bit to prevent me being identified, especially if I am talking about friends and family.

I'm that Nigerian price that offered to share some of my fortune if you had just helped me

Never.

Except right now.

I pretend to know how to spell, that's about it

What would be the point?

In anonymous medium there's no point pretending.

I guess what I said there ties into this. If there is a disconnect between myself and how it comes across, it is unintentional, but I cannot guarantee being able to show that. Helps to treat all words with no angle in particular in mind.

Not at all, I am what I am and say what I think. I'm not afraid of my ideas being sifted and correlated with my IRL person. There's nothing about me being revealed on Lemmy that my government hasn't already known about for decades. I try not to doxx myself but that's about it.

Truthfully, never, I’m always honest, but I’m also an advocate for data poisoning and obfuscation. One of these sentences is false.

Never? I feel bad lying.... people who knowingly lie are doing a bad thing in my opinion... should really not do that

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I don't care enough to fake myself. I also don't hide what I think, because most people are bad in arguing, so this gives me an edge. In worst case someone will help me to get smarter and grow by correcting me. I however learned to shut up most of the time, because it makes insecure people feel more comfortable in my presence. I also don't want to sound like a know-it-all by accident.

Is it really misrepresenting if one or more of my personalities match?

Completely on purpose? Never. Occasionally because of ignorance or a mistake? Probably once a week.

I guess I only obscure little details here and there. I don't say I like chocolate ice cream, I say I like "certain desserts". If I were to spill all the details, I would be super recognizable.

I'm honest enough I worry about people finding me online, but I will occasionally shift the dates of things happening to me if I'm worried it will be too revealing and I've told some other white lies before as well. The only one that is coming to mind at the moment is I told a dead by daylight streamer I had used Zanshin Tactics to help learn Artist, when in fact I hadn't got the perk yet. I had heard a few times that it was a good offbeat pick for her to learn to predict shots though so it was a lie to make the anecdote more personal to me.

Read my comment history

If you read something I say online, and you know anything about me IRL, it won't be difficult to make the connection.

I personally find dishonesty immoral and I value behaving ethically very highly. As a result, I don't lie about myself online. I don't need to tell the whole truth, and I can say things that are untrue in specific contexts where I believe it'll be read as insincere (satirical, sarcastic, etc.) but I don't deliberately convey untrue statements as if they were true.