Oddbean new post about login | logout Sometimes anonymity wasn't really part of the plan. I sometimes speak harsh words but it is very likely aimed at particular people who already know damn well what they are doing, and that what they are doing is pure evil. So why hide justified, rightful criticism.
I’m not against anonymity, or doing what you said. Not at all. I enjoyed my time of anonymity very much. I’m just saying in 99.99% of cases on the internet, that anonymity will be broken - especially if it’s an identity you keep for a while. So, one should plan for it. That’s all, just have a plan for if you become identified.
I've had a few people making the exact same point, except very clearly stated as a threat. It's also funny, because I chose my profile name just out of laziness, because I was still evaluating how nostr worked/behaved. I am very uninterested in improving the profile. I very much suspect that those threats were in part invited because of this. So someone's trying to prove the point about how exposed I was and that I would be easy to track down, etc. And I'm like .. "sure, but I haven't bothered to hide". I have made plenty of identifying comments, and if they only identified me in the last few weeks, I'm fairly sure they haven't been trying very hard. 😅😂😋
Being the target of that type of attention is not fun. I don’t think anyone who hasn’t lived through it could understand. Nostr has a very interesting threat profile. In a lot of ways, it’s much more anonymous, or private in a way: doesn’t require PII, etc. At the same time, the odds of getting yourself doxxed is way higher on Nostr just by nature of how exposed your IP address, etc is - and it only takes one malfunction or slip-up with a VPN, Tor, etc to have your real one out there. It’s honestly amusing to me, the odds of getting doxxed while not performing illegal activities is higher on Nostr. The odds of getting doxxed while actually breaking the law are way higher on MSM. Threat profile is everything. And I think it’s wrong to only think two-dimensionally about threat (high or low). The person living under an oppressive political regime has a very different set of threats than the person who doesn’t want to be identified because they’re unpopular or saying ugly things.