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Lemmy users will post on and on about online privacy but then think it's suspicious when a new account posts and then deletes his or her account in the name of privacy and to prevent profiling. (self.privacy)

submitted 1 week ago by hit_it_and_quit_it to c/privacy

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22762968

Complete lack of imagination!

Just because someone use the internet in a different way than you does not mean they are a bot or a troll or a state actor with malicious intent.

If you enjoy other people profiling you by looking at your post history then you do you and let others post online too.

You can't be pro-privacy and then see someone be anti-post history profiling and then call them out for it. That person is actually more pro-privacy than you!

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[–] Zak 5 points 1 week ago

There's an inherent tradeoff between pseudonymous reputation and privacy, though usually not a very severe one if you minimize what private information you share.

Reputation is important for healthy online communities. If I post something that seems suspicious based on its content, people can look at my account's history to see if it looks like a real person with varied interests and opinions. I think mine does; someone who looks at it will probably conclude that I am a single person posting in good faith of my own accord rather than a bot, an account run by an organization, or an influencer for hire.

If you don't want to have that kind of history, that's fine, but it does diminish your credibility if you're posting on topics where influence operations are known to be taking place, or where there's an obvious incentive for someone to do so.