this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2024
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I would recommend that anyone concerned with privacy either use a burner account or not answer these kinds of questions.
While statistically I'm sure there are many straight men here, doxxing and other forms of identification are enabled by combining different breadcrumbs of information.
Sssssuuuuuuurrrrre....
But I really don't think Lemmy is big or widespread enough for people to recognize each other based on random info and a username.
the proportion of terminally online losers who would actually waste their time doing it seem to be higher here than other places though