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Depends.
On Mastodon, I do care quite a bit who I follow and why.
On Kbin/Lemmy, not at all, I'm just looking for interesting discussions around a topic I follow.
I don't see these things as mutually exclusive.
The only thing I’m unsure about is like, to what extent server admins can “see” that my different accounts are connected?
Like in principle, I’m fine with having a public facing account on mastodon that I can share with people irl, and then anonymous accounts on lemmy/kbin for various purposes.
But with everything being shared between services, is it feasible for someone to just like, host an instance and see what lemmy/kbin accounts are coming from the same IP as my mastodon?
I know large corporations are already building profiles and fingerprinting me etc., and I am disturbed by it and try to take steps to mitigate it. But I also don’t want be “exposed” easily to my peers (I have nothing worth hiding really, just appreciate having anonymous spaces to chat that are reasonably insulated from my public accounts)
If your accounts are on different instances (with different admins who aren't sharing logs, it would be weird if they were) then I don't think there is anything to correlate beyond analyzing the writing style.
AcitivtyPub doesn't forward on metadata like "what IP address sent this".
Yeah definitely agreed. I'm on Mastodon to follow people, I'm on Kbin to follow topics. And either way it's good to be anonymous on the internet