An update on the OFCOM situation: As you know, censorship around the world has been ramping up at an alarming pace. OFCOM, the UK’s communications regulator, has singled out our community, demanding compliance with their Online Safety Act despite our minimal UK presence. This is a blatant overreach, and they have been sending letters pressuring us to comply with their censorship agenda.
Our platform is already blocked by many UK ISPs, yet they continue their attempts to stifle free speech. Standing up to this kind of regulatory overreach requires lots of resources to maintain our infrastructure and fight back against these unjust demands. If you value our community and want to support us during this time, we would greatly appreciate any and all donations.
The amount of personal information you expose to the internet can be controlled, for the most part.
As far as interacting on this forum, TOR, proxies, VPN, I know the lingo but I don't know how it works.
If you wish to eliminate the possibility of being identified, don't identify yourself to anybody. Beyond that, use the strategy's on how to disguise your browsing that are readily available.
I've been doxxed after a I had a popular thread on reddit. After reading my comments, I realized I made it easy to identify who I am to anybody who cared.
The average user here has little incentive to try and expose information you are trying to hide. What would be the point? Any light they wanted to shed on you publicly would be quickly moderated; and if they wanted to interfere with your personal life in the shadows, there are precautions you can take that ensure this is extremely difficult for anybody...you just have to implicate them before you've already said too much.
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I use a VPN (yes, I have to pay for it...bloody thing is $10 a month!) and try to avoid names for things that I don't want others linking me to. Like, I've never used this avatar anywhere else (though I had it saved from someone else's avatar on LJ). I don't really use the darknet; it's too complex to me and bitcoin just confuses me. I accidentally had my real name in Discord when I got added to the SS server so changed that real quick but someone might have noticed briefly. It's a pity you can't have different names on different servers (I also use Discord for WoW so I guess it could be linked back to that since I have my main's name in parentheses so my guild mates know who the fuck I am).
I'm sure if like, my therapist made an account here she'd know who I was in under 2 minutes based on my writing style and things I've said about myself (age, transmasculine, eating disorder, ptsd etc). The name is a toon name on WoW but nowhere else. I used an email that I made 3 seconds before signing up and no longer remember it or the password so I hope I never need it!
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