Hexbear started during the 2020 BLM protests, where cops were using social media and internet presence to track down activists. They are still doing this, but with less vigor than when police stations were burning down.
This included things like using tattoos on naked bodies, etsy store receipts etc.
Just before the r/cth ban, there was also a problem with chasers and leering objectification, and steps were taken to reduce thirst-posting and the like.
These things combined means that people don't post selfies or direct identifying information. People post their pets and artwork, but I know I have to make a decision about where and when I post things to make things non-trivial for cops or random chuds. I feel like a unique pet name, breed, and rough region could be enough to track someone down.
Even so, I think I'm bad at it. I feel like if someone knew me and read everything on hexbear they could ID me pretty easily (and I know multiple people in person on hexbear, but we've never exchanged usernames).
Idk if there are any hard and fast rules beyond the selfies and direct ID though. I should burn this account.
Edit: removed reference to masculinity
Imo it's good to raze the account every year or so. I've been lazy and have let this one go for way too long
The thing that creeps me out most now is the availability to feed all our posts into LLMs. The tech exists now most likely to tie burner accounts together and form a more complete profile, so it's not just what you put in an individual account but all of them. Not for chuds but for cops. I'm not even doing anything illegal but if at any point there's a commie roundup, well...
I think I'm gonna join the bureaucracy next for another layer of opsec.
I delete my account whenever I make a really bad comment and want to avoid the heat, or when I smoked too much weed and got paranoid.
So about every 3 months.
Weed paranoia is the key ingredient to robust OpSec tbh
Give yourself brain damage every year to change the way you type. Or just switch between using 'favorite'/'favourite', 'color'/'colour', etc between accounts.
Only speak Toki Pona one year, only speak Esperanto the next...
Sent from Mdewakanton Dakota lands / Sept. 29 1837
Treaty with the Sioux of September 29th, 1837"We Will Talk of Nothing Else": Dakota Interpretations of the Treaty of 1837
When will someone scrape hexbear to train the ultimate TankieGPT
Asking TankieGPT the ultimate question about Communism and it replies with "Beanis"
That's what BlackMoldFutures was.
Would it make sense to use an offline open source LLM to rephrase your post before you make it to add an additional layer of obfuscation?