I’ve treated Lemmy as a fun, silly blog since I made my account. I love how you can freely post anywhere and as much as you like, unlike on Reddit. I’m also a teen who grew up online with unrestricted internet access and does online school, so I’m a bit addicted to being online. I love how much more interactive the comments feel here, despite it being a smaller platform. I’ve had fun reading and interacting with people. But I think I might delete my account and everything, because people analyzing my behavior and accusing me of things has started to get to me. Most recently, someone accused me of trying to manipulate people because of my age and gender. All I wanted to do was make people feel some fun and giggles. I’m wondering if you’ve ever felt something similar.
I have been online since 1993 and had been taught and continue to treat everything I post as if it will never be deleted. I don’t see a point in deleting my accounts when the data has very likely been duplicated the instant I sent it and could still easily be reposted or used by whoever has access to the database it is stored on; let alone the multitude of unknown bots and agents that may have duplicated it independently.
So, no. It never even crosses my mind because I think it is rather pointless. Of course, it is also because I don’t really talk about my personal life in detail enough, or use my real name online so my online identity can be linked to my real one and don’t have any fear of something I said when I was 9 being used against me now that I am 41.
The tech to link anonymous profiles to real identities end masse might not be ubiquitous, but I saw an article recently that says it exists using AIs. However, most AI is ridiculous so I’m not sure.
That’s why you gotta post using different posting styles, punctuation, slang, hobbies, and post times on different web sites with different accounts for the past 28 years (I am mentally ill)
The tech to link pseudoanonymous profiles exists. They are not linking your one off account to your real data on their own. They are linking alt accounts to people’s main account that is often using their real name.
Unless they are able to be fed shit like all the school work I did growing up or all my personal notes that were physically written down, they won’t have enough information on my real identity to link my online one.