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 Some women I know got doxed and stalked, with men trying to find out where they live, so they went private.

Also stops Internet crawlers and face-recognition engines from indexing your pics. 
 I learned a valuable lesson very early on that the safest play is to be anon 95% of the time. It has kept me safe and still live in peace over the years. 
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 Well, private accounts and notes would help a lot of women. Some already left because you can mute, but not block.

So people can follow you around, ranting crazy stuff or whatever and screenshotting, and then you switch to a different client and their notes show up, all at once, and it's like OMG. Homemade fake porn, rape threats, death threats, incoherent rambling threats from the mentally ill, etc. 
 The unfortunate nature of social media highlights some of the worst of humanity.  I lean on the fact that I can never change that so I play defense always because I can really only control what I put out there for consumption. It’s not fair but I work around it to still enjoy it. 
 Yeah.

Some of them were ask-nostring hysterically, but I had no solution for them.
I changed npubs, to get away from some people.
Even if you're anon, it's terrifying.

Women need to be able to lock their door.