I am more worried about some dedicated reddit, or 4chan user getting angry than the feds. I’m weird with this because when I write posts I wait 2 minutes, and think how would feds interpret my posts, and is it worth posting that.
I will most likely make a mistake with my anonymity one day, but to have alts increase anonymity wouldn’t you have to be good at changing your writing style?
at the end of the day, everything important and good about us is capable of being replicated in another individual. It’s a little sad, but we are a collective. Our cells don’t try to remember each other’s names (bad analogy but you get what I mean). They just try to uphold the system that makes the body work. We are capable of teaching each other a great number of things while remaining anonymous. many comrades here have proven themselves curious, interesting, and empathetic people, and if they gotta change their names once in a while to keep themselves safe that’s alright with me.
split your personality into a bunch of sub components and scatter them across all your pseudonymous accounts.
I keep a log of conspicuous topics or phrases from the way I speak. If I tell the same anecdote twice from different alts, I make a note to not do it again. But yes, insisting on not reusing usernames and on not camping on an alt for too long helps. It makes tracking individuals over time itself a matter of pretty intense pattern recognition that’s prone to error, which is inherently more of a barrier than just clicking on a single profile.
Kiwifarms themselves lists reusing usernames as the most common way to find doxx. Their opsec guides are filled with privacy tips which double as instructions for how to violate the privacy of others and they’ve been honed by people who make cyberstalking their life’s work. There’s a lot of institutional knowledge there (as well as a lot of intentionally casual racism)
Do you know if /leftypol/ is more privacy friendly? With everyone being anonymous and chan culture encouraging people to talk similarly, it sounds good on paper.
Kiwifarms themselves lists reusing usernames as the most common way to find doxx. Their opsec guides are filled with privacy tips
where can I find the kiwifarms doxxing guide?
Visit at your own risk. At least use a VPN. CW bigotry
Just do not reveal your family crest or whatever
It does seem a little like kayfabe, like the feds monitoring this thread know exactly who we are and where we live right? Like does it really matter for them if you change your handle?
I can maybe see it for getting doxxed by some chud, but I rarely see anyone even mention their job or the city they live in much less actual identifying info, feels pretty unlikely to me :shrug-outta-hecks:
My understanding is this kind of opsec is basically entirely to avoid random 4chan/kiwifarm psychos. You’re right that the feds can 100 percent find out who you are easily if they want to if they don’t already know. Don’t have a firm opinion on how likely it is for the former group to actually try to fuck with you though, (blessedly) don’t have direct experience there.
