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Identity in the Fediverse
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this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
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If you have ever been cyber stalked, you may prefer to have anon avatars, names etc. Having been stalked I prefer to have the option.
Most of us are pretty innocuous but trolls, scam bots, agenda pusher, junk sellers, etc are not something I want …
Be safe.
Maybe I wasn't clear enough in my wording. I didn't mean to say everybody shoukd/must have a single account. And separating identity from content doesn't necessarily enforce it. Think about crypto wallets. They provide some sort of an identity, but anybody can have an infinite number of them. Now, I'm not saying crypto wallets should replace fediverse identities. I don't even have one. But, I could log into all fediverse instances with a single account, that would make things much easier for everybody:
Nothing prevents someone from following you on your instance. Knowing the sum of your interests gives me more information than the sum.
So, to avoid having your profile being made and exploited, you could split account by interests.
As an example: Someone interested in videogaming and driving Ferraris has a lemmy account he uses to posts on both subjects. Some mar*keting bot wil report "This guy certainly has a high budget for his videogames. Let's sell him expensive racing games with exclusive Ferrari logos & goodies". If that person had one account for video games and another one for ferraris, he'd be protected from that.
But yes, everybody should feel free to use a single wide use account.
I don't think what you say contradicts with what I said. If we separate "identity providers" from "content hosts" a person could easily go get as many accounts as they like (just like getting many gmail accounts) and then use them to log in to any content networks they are interested in. I didn't suggest that everyone should have their own instances of anything.