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How do you personally feel about anonymity in the Fediverse? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by RadioDonut@kbin.social to c/AskKbin@kbin.social

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I've been exploring the Fediverse for a bit, and I really like that different instances can interact with each other. But that also leads to some oddities, like how the culture on each instance treats anonymity.

On Reddit, most accounts were anonymous. Personally I always tried to keep any personally identifying information to a minimum.

On Twitter, many accounts are just [Firstname][Lastname], in fact many of the accounts I follow are because of who they are IRL.

In the Fediverse, these different cultures can interact with one another. Kbin users can interact with Mastodon users, etc. I'm just wondering how Kbin users feel about anonymity. Would you be distrustful of an anonymous user? Would you avoid posting personal information incase of doxxing?

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[–] 0xtero@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] Carnelian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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)

[–] AshDene@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

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".

[–] Lunyan@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

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