Separating my online identity

February 1, 2026 @ 23:50

Yesterday I did a post about this but I wanted to revisit those thoughts and refine them. The main subject is the fact that PossiblyAxolotl was originally only meant as a personal general purpose username rather than something I would expect to be recognized by. I often use a username on most platforms regardless of if I need to for recognition purposes the same way you might want for social media platforms, so even offline I at times feel I am never really "off the clock." Like I have to maintain some professional appearance even when I'm just hanging out with friends.

For this reason I've started working on a separate personal site, and I've been using either a different username or whatever a platform generates for me depending on the need for recognition and who the target of that would be. I.e. I use my personal username on Canva where I work with people on school projects, PossiblyAxolotl on social platforms where I need it for recognition, and whatever I'm given for something like raindrop.io which I use strictly for personal and unshared reasons, where having a username serves no purpose to me.

I'm figuring all this out as I go, the main thing is I want to be able to develop my personal self more independently from PossiblyAxolotl. As in, I don't want to feel the need to constantly keep people posted on my thoughts, hobbies, and interests, for the sake of keeping active internet engagement. Wanna do more stuff for myself and all that.

Anyway that's all for now,

goobye :3