Why is it a bad idea to use your real name on Nostr?

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Its bad opsec to use your name anywherec

Why? Serious question. Plus how can you not use your name anywhere?

All you need to get info on somone is a name and birthdate. You can find data leaks on people and they can find your location and everything.

We’ve decided to be the most open…we built a social media client to be social. Working so far!

Great insight. Thanks for sharing. People are welcome to their views ofc, and can decide for themselves. Always interesting to hear different opinions

I've personally taken the approach of I am ok with it (as you can tell from my BTC socials etc)

I like to think of having my real name out there as having true "skin in the game"

Absolutely. We’ve had ppl question putting our son’s photo online and such. It’s a decision and we’re also not naive to being careful. Building this protocol and client has been about building trust so hopefully that works

Definitely Depends on if you’re branding yourself and what you’re saying.

I was very surprised when someone who was pissed at me once went through my old reddit posts to dox me. Was crazy how much info had accumulated over the years.

Yeah covering one's tracks digitally would be pretty hard if you'e been public in the past

Also some people love to hate. Ignore them