And don’t respond to me, this account is gone.

And use a VPN that doesn’t keep logs and isn’t inside your nation.

And switch your VPN location around.

Also regularly delete and make a new social media account.

Make your lemmy accounts through lemmy.org because it doesn’t require an email. Use a VPN (lemmy.org is fine with that). Use an anti-fingerprinting browser or TOR and be careful not to add extensions that will make you uniquely identifiable. Maybe check out Mullvad Browser or Librewolf? They both have letter-boxing options that will keep your screen at a standardized resolution so you can’t be fingerprinted easily that way.

Honestly, depending on how oppressive and competent the regime you live under is, it could be too much to do this safely. I don’t know where you’re posting from so I don’t want to give you any false sense that you can do the above options and be free and clear.

EDIT: Also don’t sign into things on your TOR browser that you sign into on other browsers. Keep it as an entirely separate identity.

And don’t have two browsers open on the same site and move your mouse from one to the other. There’s a lot of little things that very driven people can do to find ways to identify you…

People have gotten way too comfortable with surveillance devices left around everywhere.

We must defend from retaliation! /s

Made me think of Vonnegut’s prologue to Slapstick:

"I have had some experiences with love, or think I have, anyway, although the ones I have liked best could easily be described as “common decency.” I treated somebody well for a little while, or maybe even for a tremendously long time, and that person treated me well in turn. Love need not have had anything to do with it.

Also: I cannot distinguish between the love I have for people and the love I have for dogs.

When a child, and not watching comedians on film or listening to comedians on the radio, I used to spend a lot of time rolling around on rugs with uncritically affectionate dogs we had. And I still do a lot of that. The dogs become tired and confused and embarrassed long before I do. I could go on forever.

Hi ho."

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What’s the value here? Both these sites get traffic and now they gotta apply even more trackers in an attempt to sell data and turn a profit off the purchase? Make a downdetector account to see which sites are down? Install our app?

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Echoing another user’s suggestion of using Foobar2000. You can also do it by album so the quiet parts of the album remain quiet in relation to the other parts, as they were intended to be.

Create a playlist in Foobar2000.

Add whatever folders.

Select all.

Right-click and go to replaygain

I always choose “scan as albums (by tags)”

and then when it’s done scanning click the button to adjust replaygain in the metadata.