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Why not have two different user names? What if you get logged out and the other identity is the one that knows the password?



The rule is one username per physical body, even if multiple identities are sharing it.


Where is that rule written?


> Why not have two different user names?

We do on some platforms like Discord.

> What if you get logged out and the other identity is the one that knows the password?

Before we moved to a password manager we used the same password everywhere. Now, obviously, we have a password manager.

-Emily


Don't you run the risk of only one person knowing the password to the password manager?


> Don't you run the risk of only one person knowing the password to the password manager?

No, because systems don't necessarily work that way. For us, the boundaries between our members aren't totally uncrossable. Information has gotten through in the past when it would be especially important or needed.

Though I guess it's funny that this topic comes up under a post called "segment anything". I guess our brain did that~

-Emily




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