This is a part of not doxxing yourself.
Lie about who you associate with, what you do, who your trans friends are, what politician is running in your city, all of it. Have fun with it. Lie about every detail. Be as inconsistent as possible. Your one dentist friend that has a certain story relating to their occupation is actually your 106-year-old WW2 medic grandmother. A story you have as a software dev was actually told to you by a weeb cousin in Japan.
The truth doesn’t matter anymore and nobody needs it. Nobody is keeping check. What’s important is keeping everyone safe and having fun with it.
Safety is more important than name checking the millionth local school board member that talked about “preserving Western civilisation” in a Zoom meeting. Fuck that guy.
Especially be careful when referring to trans comrades in your life. It is an insanely small world for trans people. I have ran into trans people I know IRL through trans internet forums. If the wrong people are browsing, what you say + a first name is really all you need.
Also, you live at Liberal Mountain, Idaho.
Nah, I live in Liberal, Kansas. DON’T COME HERE THE NAME IS MISLEADING.
There are lots of small towns named Liberal. There’s even a Liberal, Indiana.
My real name starts with “Watermelon” and ends with “Sugar” and I used to work concrete in Portland until I lost all of my skin to the lime.
you are divorced from your wife.
wyph is what you named your cat, who now lives with your ex.
hes nice but not your ex-boyfriend, hes an ex-housemate.
the siblings are all potted plants.
youre fostering them, as all your friends know you have a green thumb.
Actually I live in Moscow, Texas and I’m frankly sick and tired of all ya’lls Russian bot 9am Moscow time jokes!!!
Some years ago, I ran across an account that had a username that (deliberately) made clear that they and I shared an employer. After browsing their history for about 5 or 10 minutes, I found enough personal details to narrow it down to a guy I’d met a few weeks prior. It ain’t hard if you have the right info. So, don’t give it to them.
I had something similar happen. Saw a dude’s post on Reddit and was able to track him down in our company directory and emailed him directly. Hopefully he learned his lesson. Kinda terrifying to think of someone doing that to me.
What’s scarier is the people who are trained in OSINT (Open source intelligence) and quite literally do this stuff for a living.
You have no idea how much data websites give away about you, and the data they don’t give away is given away through web breaches. This is also ignoring the US State surveillance machine, and the fact that it definitely knows basically everything you do online.
