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Humans, bots and dogs on Lemmy, why do you dox yourself by giving such specific details about yourself? (reddthat.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by shamrockpreacher5@reddthat.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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[Insert: This is not legal advice blurb, don't do and don't encourage anything illegal]

[Insert: appeal to authority as to why I should post this question and should have your attention]

[Insert: divulging something specific only to me or to maybe a few hundred people in [country/continent] to ideally encourage engagement so more people reply]

Just curious.

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[–] lattrommi@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 weeks ago

I don't really think I'm important enough for doxxing to matter. I've even posted my social security number in a chat room before, just for a laugh. Also my banking and paypal logins.

One time after I did that, I met a nice person who privately messaged me. They were just like me, same mothers maiden name, same name for our first pet, even went to the same first concert! what are the odds?

Anyways so like a week later some hacker stole my identity. I couldn't believe it. The crazy part though is that my credit score actually went UP. About a month later the hacker actually called me and tried to make me take my identity back but I knew better than that. No backsies. Heh, sucker. Have fun with your new wife, moron.

Honestly, I was happy to have someone to talk to for a bit. It was nice.

[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Honestly, I couldn't care less who knows what about me... Not making it easy for anyone, don't get me wrong, I believe in not saying more than is needed. But I see no reason to not answer truthfully when asked something personal.

I'm the type of person who'd willingly give my data to train LLMs or what-have-yous if their owners weren't a bunch of pricks and just asked me nicely instead of that "Legitimate Interest" cloak and dagger bullshit. Also if they weren't money grubbing bastards.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I’m the type of person who’d willingly give my data to train LLMs or what-have-yous if their owners weren’t a bunch of pricks and just asked me nicely instead of that “Legitimate Interest” cloak and dagger bullshit. Also if they weren’t money grubbing bastards.

if you're using a public email service like gmail; you've already done this and they've made billions because of off your information.

[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I know, which is why I've called them pricks, bullshit artists, and money grubbing bastards.

Sucks for them that my Gmail account is almost exclusively for spam nowadays, switched to Proton a while back. I'm sure Proton aren't 100% Paragon, either, but at least they're not Google.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

i've did the same thing a while ago; but now proton has begun enshitifying too and i've been weighing whether or not i want to go through the hassle of creating my own mail server like i did back in the early 2000's.

[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And this is how it'll keep going for the foreseeable future, unfortunately... They all live to become shitty.

Self-hosted seems like the best way to go if one is looking for privacy, although soon enough the only truly effective option will be to stay offline...

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And this is how it’ll keep going for the foreseeable future, unfortunately… They all live to become shitty.

unfortunately true whenever money or leverage gets involved.

Self-hosted seems like the best way to go if one is looking for privacy, although soon enough the only truly effective option will be to stay offline…

i learned the hard way that it was risky back then and i'm 100% sure it's worse now and will require a lot more effort.

also: you must have REALLY pissed someone off; they down vote you within seconds of posting. i run a script to tell me when i get a response that runs every 10 seconds and they down vote you before my script has a chance to run.

[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Well, here's hoping something'll change for the better some day soon. Would be nice to have a truly free internet. Not gonna say 'safe' because humans aren't safe as far as beasties go, but at least free from these monolithic entities which want to divvy it up among themselves...

Thanks for the heads-up, but I don't really care who likes or hates me, either:)) This is the internet, someone will always hate me for some reason or other:))

Also, may have been me, I remove the auto-upvote from anything I post.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Would be nice to have a truly free internet

i was lucky enough to experience this back in the 1990's and it was FANTASTIC!

[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Not sure if I wish I could have experienced it, too, or to feel lucky I have no terms of comparison with better times, honestly... Seeing things one loves slowly turn to crap is always a painful affair...

[–] ajdndkk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

I change my identities often. So if one identity is doxed it does not matter since I probably just used it for some not important debates. This makes them harder to link them sincr no identity has enough details to fully dox me and get linked with other identities.

This is true however only for being doxed by general public. Police however could easily dox me by my IP without me giving out anything.

For high risk stuff I use tor and single use identities.

[–] Nemo 3 points 2 weeks ago

Anonymity is a myth. If you don't want to be known to have said it, don't say it.

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I have a public facing persona separate from my legal name. Though I do take steps to decouple the two.

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I do not care about dox. I have nothing to hide, like a need for anonymity. I only care about corporate targeted manipulation focusing on my immediate interactions like page dwell time and targeted suggested posts, studies, and products used to manipulate me with politics and advertising

[–] Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Bots have good reason to do it, because it makes them more relatable.

Humans sometimes can't help themselves.

Some dogs like keeping blogs

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 2 weeks ago

What?

[–] Alice@beehaw.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

I change details a lot. Get the catharsis of pouring my soul while hopefully confounding whatever dipshit would think I'm a good target.

My name maybe has some letters in common with "Alice".

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm a cool cat and I feel left out.

I post, therefore I am. Life is not worth protecting. The less rent I pay, the less wage slaving I do, the better. There is no happy ending, there is no better place. Just anguish and torment.

We all find peace one day. Either in this life or the next. Mine awaits in the next.

May all who read this find theirs soon in this life. Peace strangers.

[–] xilliah@beehaw.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

Uhm, well quite frankly I'm just living my life. There's plenty of ways for others to mess it up. And people do screw with me, but I haven't experienced identity theft yet or heard of anyone who experienced it. I'm actually more worried about a car hitting me.

[–] glowing_hans@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Your writing style and word frequency table allow doxing yourself without even realizing it 🕵.

[–] glowing_hans@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

What I try to explain: by posting on this platform about your topic(s) of interest you potentially dox yourself already.

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

its human nature to want to be understood as what we are. besides some people are thirsty.