Using a pseudonym on social media can be an incredibly valuable way to reclaim your privacy online. In an age where digital footprints last forever, the ability to separate your online identity from your real-world persona is more important than ever.
Maybe you’re concerned about protecting yourself from online mobs that might target your job, your family, or your personal reputation. Maybe you don’t want everything you say online to be permanently linked to your real name. Perhaps you have multiple interests or roles in life (professional, personal, creative) and want to maintain separate identities for each.
Maybe you simply value your privacy. Having a pseudonymous account can be liberating. It allows you the freedom to explore new ideas, revise your beliefs, and reinvent yourself without every past opinion you’ve ever expressed being etched in stone and forever tied to you.
But setting up a pseudonymous account on social media isn’t always straightforward. Your approach will depend heavily on the platform you’re using. It will also depend on your threat model, which you can think of as whom you’re trying to hide your identity from, how private you need to be, and what’s at stake.
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Even easier, don’t use corporate social media
As much as I hate people fighting with me on Lemmy, at least I know it’s artisanal human driven fuckery
More and more businesses and events of all kinds just default to a Facebook presence though. We were gonna go to a rodeo on Friday. Had some rain in the afternoon, wanted to find out if there was any schedule impact etc. No way to find out, except on Facebook, or driving down there.
Needing a Facebook visit to enjoy a rodeo is stupid lol.
Agreed. A lot of restaurants in my area don’t even have webpages anymore, just a Facebook page. If they want to make it hard for me to get information, they will find it difficult to get my money. Still worth it to not browse with a Facebook account
If you have to give a phone number to verify your account, obtain a burner SIM card and give that number, otherwise your account will be linked to your identity in data-broker databases, so that those buying ads on the site can target you on the basis of the sum of your posts, your Facebook/Instagram likes, your Gmail history and your credit card purchases, even if you’re confident nobody will ever link “xxShadowRogue42069xx” to you.
