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It can now pretty reasonably be assumed what OP's first name is, and that can be associated with his username.
Granted, his username might also be a derivative, but on its own there is a certain amount of plausible deniability there.
The more crumbs of identifiable information you leave around, the easier it becomes for malicious parties to gather them together and build a profile on you.
Right, but speaking for the dev crowd, plenty of us have public identities. Anyone can find my email trivially by scraping github. If you have a public online identity in the first place, it’s far preferable to treat your public-facing email as public information, rather than to rely on security by obscurity and assume no one will ever discover it.
The only glaring risk from an online attacker is credential stuffing, and falling victim to that one is a skill issue tied right back to assuming your email address won’t become public.
If Lemmy wasn't a collection of people fascists want to kill I'd agree
I'm the only daychilde on the internet. It's trivial to find my name and my wikipedia entry.
Nobody's murdered me yet.
I know you just didn't flag yourself that hard, you should have figured out by now these script writers are hacks.