Ex :reddit-logo: user and resident leftist edgelord there. On my new phone (unfortunately it's an iphone so vuvuzela), I really want to keep it as "normie" as possible.
The only thing I have transferred over there is my phone number, and I'm using a new icloud email address too. is this something to worry about (sorry for the boomer-tier questions). If there's not much I can do, what can I do to fuck up the data that I do have so I can at least resist being profiled?
Call me paranoid, but as a lefty. I'm really concerned about privacy. So I think that if I can't make myself all that anonymous, the next best thing is to be so fundamentally boring on my phone that I don't leak too much that would bite me in the ass.
I'm definitely trying to delete as many of my old :reddit-logo: accounts that I can, I had one that had almost 70k karma that I forgot the pasword to, but I don't think that will do me too much harm because that was my "reasonable lefty" account.
I'm definitely going to delete some of my alts, and any new accounts I do make will be temporary at best except for my normie ones.
Yeah in my mind there's kind of three different privacy levels:
Being anonymous to random internet strangers, which isn't too hard unless someone wants to go digging and they can probably dox me.
Separating my real life identity with online identity enough that if I apply for jobs they won't ask me about my Hexbear or Reddit account.
Privacy from the government, which I'm basically not even going to try because my info and documents and stuff are all already out there. And there's a million ways to track people from just viewing stuff in online accounts to doing packet capture to see website activity.
1 and 2 are pretty trivial for 99% of people as long as you use some basic common sense. 3 is very, very difficult and almost not worth worrying about. Don't take your phone to a protest or anything stupid like that, but if the Government is at the point of subpeona-ing your Hexbear Dot Org posts, you're already fucked.
Yeah there are definitely real life things that you should do your best to make sure the government doesn't have access to. Things which could be weaponized by police departments. But you can't really hide your political beliefs or organizing or anything like that.