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Just curious why you’d go to such lengths to maintain privacy.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say you’re probably of no interest to any authority. Unless you KNOW you’re doing something illegal.
To be clear I’m not saying that we all shouldn’t value privacy but, for example, could you not just keep an account for 6 months then delete?
Or are you worried that some 3 letter agencies will bust through your door within that time frame?
part of the reason why i don't keep a permanent account is also to not create association or interest with that account, in order to prevent me from becoming addicted by constantly posting or commenting. once i close my browser, the account becomes inaccessible since i don't remember any credentials. this way i lose my progress of accumulated upvotes and thus I am not incentivized to post/comment for the sake of internet points.
"progress of accumulated upvotes"!
"internet points"!
these are your problem, not privacy
Hmmm I see.
I mean the real solution is practicing self discipline and if it’s not possible then you just quit social media (which is still self discipline but a more clean break kind I suppose).
But you’re the only one that can judge if the negatives of engaging with social media are outweighed by the positives.
You’re already putting a bunch of different barriers in front of yourself to limit social media engagement and maybe that’s an indication of how you should be valuing it in your life? (I.e. even less important than it is now)