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?

  • Showroom7561@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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    1 year 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