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Cake day: May 31st, 2024

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  • Everything on the fediverse is usually pseudonymous but public. That’s why it would be good for people to read up a little on differential privacy. Not necessarily too much theory, but the basics and the practical implications, like here or here.

    Basically, the more messages you post on a single account, the more specific your whole profile is to you, even if you don’t post strictly identifying information. That’s why you can share one personal story, and have it not compromise your privacy too much by altering it a little. But if you keep posting general things about your life, it will eventually be so specific it can be nobody but you.

    What you do with this is up to you. Make throwaway accounts, have multiple accounts, restrict the things you talk about. Or just be conscious that what you are posting is public. That’s my two cents.