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[–] 5 points 3 years ago (3 children)

It's a bold assumption that you will never dox yourself or be doxed. The fediverse by nature not at all private.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Yup. I was able to identify the employee running my company's subreddit that was hosting a current/former employee hatefest and many, many leaks, fueling RTO protests and unionization. Took all of about 30 mins of digging through his comments to figure it out. I never acted on it because I support everything about what it would lead to, but if I could figure it out, so could someone smarter than me who works for the interests of my company. He was still at the company, last I checked about six months ago.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    So... avoiding mentioning the company name will help an individual if they're doxed while talking about it?

    Do you really believe this?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    That's not even close to that I said.

    If you say a bunch of things that would get you in trouble on your anonymous account, then over a period of time say enough other things to dox yourself, all your old account content is still there. Over time a little slip here, a little slip there. You put enough pins on the board, someone can find you, hell you might even accidentally talk about something unique. Happens all the time.

    It's a risk for no good reason. Your're taking the risk so that some other nameless person on a social media instance can go ohhhhhh that company did bad things.

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