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Okay, serious question to #asknostr

I’m a big believer in authenticity, being yourself, and being honest with the people you care about.

I’ve also been exploring the world of digital identity and how it overlaps with privacy.

I’ve come to care for a great many of you here, and setting up alt accounts feels a little disingenuous, even though it’s done in good faith/with good intentions.

I’m new to this. How do you all approach it?

Would love to hear your opinions, best practices, and more on the philosophy of anonymity 😎

Akito 2y ago

Partition.

Just partition.

Be honest & don't lie, but never tell the whole story at once. Always just enlighten parts of truth about you, but never everything at the same time, in the same medium.

This way, you are quite anonymous or pseudonymous (depending on how much you hide), but to be able to use that information against you, people (or AI) would need to greatly research everything about you, to connect all the pieces, but by then you have proven that they put a lot of energy into making you seem bad, which lowers their own reputation, leading to you being able to counter them in a trustworthy way. :)

That said, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Most people don't realise, that good intentions really suck.

What matters is what you do & how you do it.

If the wrong man uses the right means, the right means work in the wrong way.

Did you know, that everything that happens to you, is your doing?

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W 2y ago

Partition. Brilliant 🫡

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W 2y ago

Great feedback!!

Do you think if I’m using two clients, two different npubs, simultaneously, running on mobile through the same VPN, that the accounts would be linkable if a relay were to query multiple npubs on the same IP address?

Akito 2y ago

#Amtheyst supports connections through Tor & if several npubs connect through the same Exit Node, that is no proof of anything.

To be honest, generally speaking (not specifically talking about you), people overestimate the technical aspects waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much & hugely underestimate the social engineering stuff.

For example, instead of thinking about IP addresses, VPNs & npubs, you should rather think about the language, grammar & dialect you use on different accounts.

If you use your original idiolect on every account, you might as well connect with your real IP & have it on the same account, because an AI can probably link those accounts within seconds, if you have a very specific idiolect & use it the same way everywhere.

W 2y ago

Such a good point. If I spend a few more hours posting from this account, a halfway-decent AI would probably link me up.

An attentive pleb could probably do it 🤣