Does the existence of KiwiFarms change your behaviour (online)?

No, not much. I've always been a private person.

Every single board on 4chan has someone observed for the purposes of mockery, and 4chan is in some ways crueler and in others kinder than Kiwi Farms. Many screencaps mock children who wandered onto a board and made a thread, and those screencaps are still posted around and referenced. This should be a somber reminder that how we act on the Internet is important. At the same time, screencaps must continually be reposted or they'll be forgotten, and active mockery usually only lasted a day at most. Kiwi Farms is much more permanent, and plays SEO games to ensure that someone's thread will follow him or her around indefinitely.
Celso Bin Portiolli said:
Did you learn any lessons from it?
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Yes, and I try to make certain those lessons don't apply to me. I've also decided to tie up loose ends before they can ensnare me.
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Did you stop doing doing certain things due to fear of being archived?
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No. Ultimately, privacy no longer exists in the modern world, and nothing I do is heinous anyway, so I don't let fear dictate how I live my life.
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Do you hide your true feelings or power level in order to fit in?
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No, but at the same time compartmentalization is important. I don't feel like getting into any of the ERP chats here, as an example.
 
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I lurked for years, in that time, I saw the insanity of journalists , the insanity of the LGBTQ shit, but most of all it taught me the importance of archival. So much shit has swept under the rug (covid, summer of love, shit like that) But being able to come back here, go to the post or content and go "No Medvedev, you are not fucking crazy" is such a refreshing thing. Also people IRL think I'm some sort of Nostradamus because I've been correct about numerous political happenings, when in reality I'm just reading a gossip forum
 
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While the Farms have made me wary of oversharing or how much of my private life I give to strangers online, it also has made me appreciate true eccentricity. It isn't about repressing your inner sperg, but to do it on your own terms and being aware there are good and bad people out there. We all can be a Chris but all can be an Ulillillia too.
 
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No. I was coming of age in the era that said you never put your real name or anything linking to you in real life on the Internet. I still refuse to put my real name on anything online, not the Facebook I only joined because that was how friends were planning parties and events 10 years ago, not even the LinkedIn or Monster accounts I use to get jobs. For those last two I use a workaround so employers don't think I'm doing something shady, so they're the few places my real life is sort of exposed on the Internet. The only thing that has changed is maybe strengthening my determination to keep the Internet on the Internet and my real life in real life, crossing the two as little as possible.
 
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I learned one golden rule. If you suck your gonna get banned.
 
No I was taught to keep shit on the internet private when it was first a thing. Back then it was when parents were terrified of people in chat rooms trying to fuck your kids. Funny thing it turns out they weren't wrong and its just kept rolling.

At most I think KF has taught me that if I'm gonna do something retarded make sure I don't do it on a username or identifiable account but if someone really wants to dig things up on you they eventually will.
 
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My entire existence on this site is solely for the purpose of baiting retards into provision of entertaining content for my amusement. On other platforms those I used to disagree with seem to now have only moderately disagreeable views whereas before I perceived them as vastly different.

If anything the whack jobs in this site (not the good people on the LOLCOW section of course) have made me realize how sane most people actually are.

So yes, KF has changed how I deal with people on-line - for the better.
 
I was always good at keeping my online stuff separated from real life and only ever made accounts to shitpost on small forums and such but I have gotten better at handling emails and personal technical data thanks to the farms. On internet etiquette I do cringe at some of my older behaviors but that just a normal fact of life, if you're not embarrassed by your old actions you just haven't grown enough since then.
 
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Being a shy kid made me never post my face or use my real name on the internet, the farms only strengthened and solidified my views on anonymity
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I've never posted my pic either and very few people online know my real name. When I started using the internet you just didn't do that. The easiest way to keep yourself from getting doxxed is to never put that info out in the first place. And don't be a retard with email and passwords.
 
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Just like the others ITT, I've become a lot more private and generally don't share personal info, unless speaking with really close & trusted friends.
I've also become a lot more judgemental, and can't help but view people's behavior through a critical lens; this has admittedly made it hard for me to make friends with new people, because I tend to pick up on those traits of theirs that I dislike, first and foremost.
 
I learned in many ways that being a public figure on the internet can be a curse and it's a better way to live a more private life. I've also been more careful of posting things online also considering like everyone else, may do something retarded.
 
I been hiding my PL in social media from the start because anyone who posts their serious stuff online with their real names on it its a retard who eventually will get cancelled by other normalfags or get a thread here

So no, nothing changed, my social media is strictly for appearances sake cuz these days if you dont have any youre a weirdo fuck
 
Yes. Mainly towards distancing myself from my real life personal and the exaggerated personal that I play up. I do not think it would be possible to dox me in any logical way if I was an autistic 13/30 year old man
 
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