I know that generally there is a practice of deleting Lemmy/reddit account every 6 months to avoid being Doxxed.
But curious to see how often people do this?
I know that generally there is a practice of deleting Lemmy/reddit account every 6 months to avoid being Doxxed.
But curious to see how often people do this?
I never have. I guess I don’t understand the point of deleting your account? I have no issues with telling people my name and location. I live in Dallas, Tx and my name is Danny. I’ll even meet up with you and buy you a beer.
I wiped my old Reddit account the other week, but not before deleting all my replies and posts, some of which were truly helpful and even hit the front page.
The reason is that kind of stuff is what brings Reddit real value. People sharing their experiences, or providing tech help (which continues to help as new people with those problems can reference the solutions later on) or posting interesting, real content (not some chick trying to look hot, lip syncing to some mumble rap). Without that stuff, Reddit has very limited appeal.
It sucks that the users suffer too, but I’m not about to pad Reddit’s coffers when they clearly don’t give a shit about their community with my own value as a person.
Lately I’ve been really starting to look at social media in a different light. And abandon the knee jerk reaction to hold onto all this stuff and “power up” an account. Because companies like Twitter, Google, Meta, and the rest have made trillions off all our content. And are now gating it behind even more paywalls. It has to stop.
I guess you’ve been lucky enough to avoid the seriously disturbed and insane people so far. Some people will latch on to you, follow you all over the internet, and make it their mission to make you miserable. It could be for something totally benign too. Be careful online!
I had my same Reddit account for like 12 years and never got harassed, though someone who knows me in real life could recognize me from it, and I’m sure with some minor effort I could be doxxed. But I try to avoid associating my real name with my username, don’t post photos of myself on it, etc. I don’t doubt it’s possible though, and I’m sure something like that would prompt me to change all instances of that username.
I understand the sentiment and i hope that you will only make pleasant acquaintances. Mainly people are paranoid because of stories they have heard and red and i get it. It is quite hard to judge how real the threat of doxxing is (as in what are the chances it will happen to oneself). Having said that, i hope you keep your optimistic, open and welcoming spirit. We could use more of that in this world.
For those that aren’t aware, Danny does a fantastic job on his community of microcontrollers/sbc. Check it out!
No way. My name is also Danny and I live in Dallas, Tx.
Small world, I’m in Addison.