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If you keep making noise about this, you’re going to get the Streisand effect. It’s not a crime to post pictures of peoples houses where I live (USA).
Just move along.
Eh, I disagree with them on the "illegal most places" thing, but I don't know if I'd just ignore it. Like, okay, say they want to be pseudonymous. In their shoes, I'd probably:
See if I can get the relevant mods/admins to ban the user for doxxing. It's not illegal to do so, but many services do have policies against it. I doubt that this will be incredibly efficacious, since the user in question can probably just use a throwaway account to do this.
Delete my account, which I believe on the Threadiverse also deletes posts and comments. You can't really "wipe" stuff reliably that you've posted and commented on
someone can always be running an instance that is logging it. But it'll at least increase the barrier to someone reading them.