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Do you use formally distinct personas irl?
kind of. Nobody in my village knows what I do for a living/about my Bitcoin life. So I'm already very comfortable with this separate-identities thing
...and it's sort of fitting to the online/cypherpunk idea of slaying nyms and making others (Not that Den is about to die, but whatevs)
do your yoga clients know you're a bitcoiner and dirty capitalist?
Nope
why, you should show them your full self!
pff... what a ridiculous, loud-mouthed American thing to say.
I like having friends/acquintances. And I don't want all, even any, of our interactions to be about my narrow, quirky, currently unpopular interests
most people who know me pretty well know i'm into bitcoin, because I've found some opportunity or another to mention it. But yeah, if they're not interested in talking about it, I don't press it.
I don't even bring it up, basically ever. I don't go out of my way to obscure it (e.g., publicly display all these Bitcoin books across the house; and it's not difficult to find out via google or asking an AI), but I take some conversational pains not to mention it.
Maybe I overdo the privacy here (Hughes 1:4)
I probably wouldn't go out of my way to not mention it. To me, that would basically mean that I'm not talking to a friend (which is fine).
I get that with acquaintances but I expect my friends to be all-in.
obvs with Bitcoin friends that's the case... but I have at least one close friend with whom it legit never comes up: there's no hiding or obfuscating and we can talk about whatever, it just never comes up and he has zero/negative interests in any sort of such convos or related ideas.
it just never comes up
That's different. I don't talk to everyone about everything either. You'd probably have to be an insufferable bore to do so.
Do you use formally distinct personas irl?
I think it’s too much effort and antithetical to the idea of this being an online community.
The exception that comes to mind is if you want an account to represent something like a business entity that you don’t want conflated yourself personally.