It doesn’t take a genius to realize that a long-running account on any platform can easily be used to build a profile of someone.

Since many discussions on Lemmy and other platforms can often cause someone to write about their job, family, hobbies, where they live (city/community), etc., there’s a lot of concern about non-private post history being used against someone.

Other than using fake names, throwaway emails, etc. are there any other best practices for handling this?

Should we be creating new accounts/profiles every once in a while?

  • Showroom7561OP
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    2 years ago

    For posting stuff I always recommend to strip out any metadata from files

    Yeah, I do this when posting photos, and it’s a good reminder.

    I guess my concerns are less about browser/server snooping, but more about what data is publicly accessible from someone’s post history.

    I’ve heard of some people creating accounts for certain topics, rather than one account for everything. This would compartmentalize any posts and limit them only to a narrow range of topics. Do you think there’s value in doing that?