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Why just blocking Meta's Threads won't be enough to protect your privacy once they join the fediverse
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this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2023
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Even commercial 'social' media need anonymity.
You control how anonymous you are. If you post non personal stuff under a pseudonym you are anonymous. Even to meta.
Not really, the way you write, leaves a fingerprint itself, so with a little bit of AI it's possible to link personal/identifiable profiles with pseudonymous/anonymous ones.
I doubt it. But even if your only way of circumventing it is not to use social media. Because social media is not private. That is the point.
It has been demonstrated time and time again that social graph fingerprinting is not only widespread but extremely effective.
This article literally demonstrates a way of circumventing it. Blocking all instances that federate with threads.
Additional tracking options can further improve your privacy and difficulty to be fingerprinted in general, things like librewolf, for example.