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Very recently a brand new account commented on my posts with that looked a lot like pictures of my house. The account is @WellWellWaldo@programming.dev, they deleted their account but not the media uploaded.

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[–] locuester@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

  • Make a new account and try to avoid leaking information this time that ties you to your identity or old account. Rotating accounts periodically might not be a terrible idea if you're really concerned about pseudononymity. Sucks from a community standpoint for everyone here, because it prevents people from building up reputation associated with a handle, but it is what it is.