1. technology progresses and doesnt sleep
2. you are not everyone

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.16800

In your own words, what was the central point of my message?

IKTYKTIKTYK the real solution this problem, and its not another attempt at a federated message board 😏

Yes but there has been a cultural and technical shift on the internet. Your average AOL user was not out running witch hunts against people they ideologically oppose, you couldnt mass blast your shitter post to your 5m followers and change public opinion over night, You were not linked by your real name to your employer, your ssn address etc was not leaked 5x to sunday.

The landscape has changed “at this point”.

I mean, you’re in a network/platform that goes as far as encouraging you to use multiple accounts, so what’s stopping you from doing it right?!

easy access to weapons grade software like llms that can deanonymize users across multiple posts across the entire web

The biggest issue besides the llm is

a tool to download a user’s public posting history through the lemmy API

I think this needs to be very clearly explained to users in general. In the name of public education.

Your posting history is public, and can and will be used against you. At this point in time, anything posted on the internet is essentially permanent public history. It’s in a database somewhere that can be leaked or scraped.

This is not a lemmy or dbzer0 problem.