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?

  • glacier@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Lemmy isn’t a private messenger and it’s safe to assume that anything you post on a site like Lemmy or Reddit could be seen or saved by anyone. On reddit you can edit older posts into gibberish and then delete them, on Lemmy you cannot fully delete posts from all instances so you have to be very careful. Making a new account every once in a while may help depending on your threat model

    • Showroom7561@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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      2 years ago

      On reddit you can edit older posts into gibberish and then delete them

      Speaking of which, when I get my data export from Reddit, I do plan to edit my posts - is there a plugin or script that can do this automatically. I’m not going back to edit thousands of posts over the last 13+ years, which is something I did with Facebook and that took weeks! LOL