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What have I got to hide?
Wrong question. It's "Who would I need to hide from?"
anyone scary enough to be worth hiding from would also have the means to tear through the thin paper walls of pseudonymity
Untrue. There are plenty of people who don't have the means to break pseudonymity but who would gladly torment, abuse or seek retribution for some real or imagined slight from someone they can easily identify by face and name.
And it's always worth making the truly scary ones work for it, because they're far more likely to go for easier marks first.
Note that the same logic applies to locking your doors at home. You don't leave your doors unlocked, right?
100% this. Leaving your door unlocked does not assure that you will be attacked or robbed in the night, but it certainly makes it easier for anyone that would like to do that stuff. And there are certainly people out there who would like to do those things and much, much worse, just looking for the right target or oppurtunity to indulge.
Why make it easy for them? Dahmer and Gein both thrived on people giving them the benefit of the doubt. They used the normalcy bias of civil society to their advantage and they are far from the only people willing to take advantage of the naive and the unguarded. If you dont have to roll the die, then why throw em at all? Lock your door not because someone is for sure coming tonight, but because someone could come on any given night, right?