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The best advice I got was to periodically delete your current account and create a new one. Then remove any association you have with the old account: history, password managers, etc. Yes, that accounts comments may live on for ever in some archive, but removing your association with it goes a long way towards plausible deniability. If your super paranoid only access Lemmy through tor going forward.
This is my approach. A new account once a year.
I used to do the same every year or two on Reddit, for similar reasons. Mostly to prevent the accidental accumulation of PII that could be compiled to dox me. Just nuke the old account, start fresh with a brand new account, and import subscriptions so my home page didnโt drastically change. I even had a dedicated lurking account for browsing the NSFW subs.