or, like, learn opsec and sigint principles, it's not that complicated really.
i don't publish anything on the internet that i'm concerned about being known, and don't use direct messaging systems that aren't work related anyway. almost all the rest of the channels on all centralized systems are plagued with spam anyway, and scams, and i almost always know a scam when i see one. i've only been caught in one, one time, back in 2021, for my entire life this was the only one, was a shady "vendor" of bitcoin miners.
ultimately, as i see it, i am very unlikely to be a POI for anyone, because i don't hardly talk to anyone and i'm never going to join some movement or any other fucking club that might be someone's enemy, and nobody hardly listens to what i say anyway, and most of those people are just like me. nobodys, who want to have as little to do with the systems of corruption as possible.
being small and humble have huge benefits in that your life doesn't become someone else's strategic interest.