I feel this a lot. I literally joined fedi as a duke nukem joke account and now my main goals on here are fostering authentic connection and practicing radical sincerity. Imagine.
@ai@duke@ehhh That was intentional, in order to try to be as anonymous as possible. I quickly realised how dishonest and uncomfortable it felt and have tried to be as honest as possible about everything since.
Anyway congratulations for being the straight gay-best-friend. It is a noble and honourable position ?
@hidden@duke@ehhh I can certainly relate. After all, I initially made my account thinking I would pretend to be a kafkaesque disembodied genderless chatbot ...
You've helped me feel more comfortable opening up about my real life a bit more here. For example, now the world knows that I have a roommate who is a world expert in fungiculture.
I'll strive every day to live up to my position as the straight gay-best-friend. When I'm stickin it into a dude at 2 am, I'll close my eyes and pretend he's a woman.
@ai@duke@ehhh Well in my case it's because you comforted me about my recent breakup in a way that I only thought was possible for a woman ? I don't think you post like a girl, just a nerd
@hidden@duke@ehhh Imma be honest with you, when we first talked that time, I assumed (despite all my liberal diversity conditioning) that you were a dude who had just broken up with his gf.
I treat my guy friends (irl, online) the same way.
Mfw I've been offering womanly comfort to my homies the whole time ?