you say this, but do I have to sacrifice being connected to online communities that are more local to my area? A huge privacy issue for me is just participating in online communities for my state and my city. I want to remain anonymous, but I also want to participate in these more local discussions. Just being subscribed to those communities narrows down their search by like 99%. Sure I could create a burner account to participate in those communities, but then I look like an astroturfing bot to other users because I don’t participate in any other conversations across reddit or lemmy or whatever.
How does one connect with their local community digitally without making a massive sacrifice to privacy? It feels unavoidable.
orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 3 weeks ago
Yep. Maintaining anonymity across platforms requires constant effort. It also helps to just not have any accounts on any mainstream social media platforms.
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Yeah, someone could do the difficult work of putting all of my MagicShel accounts together into a single aggregate person, for whom a fair bit of demographic data would be available if you combed each account. That being said, none of it is PII and connecting me to my actual identity would likely require cooperation of a couple key sites. I think if you compromised (or subpoenaed) a minimum of 3 separate services you could put it together based on who made donations in my name.
Point being, no random internet asshole is going to be calling my phone or knocking on my door, and I’m not interesting enough to be worth the effort for any rational actor.
I don’t use non-pseudononymous social media.