What is the fh did I just read

  • You might want to put a note about the sensationalist title, so that people don’t just read the headline and come away with the wrong idea.

    There’s really no other way to implement this sort of a network. Once someone federates your messages, they can disconnect their server and keep your message forever. It doesn’t matter what sort of protocol you put in to try to “securely redact” messages after the fact, there is still an edge case that the information that you make publicly available is available for eternity. If not by Lemmy itself, then by web scrapers, search engines, archives etc.

    Cycle through generic accounts and don’t put PII up. That’s the best you can do with this sort of social media. If you want more privacy you need to take it to a non-public space, like chat rooms.

    • You don’t really need to cycle. I’ve been using this handle across platforms since 1995, somewhat publicly for a few years, and I’ve never had a stalking problem, nor any other unwanted attention. If you just want to stir shit up, cycling is a good idea, but otherwise, most people just aren’t important enough to stand out.