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Are there any reasonable privacy benefits for creating temporary accounts to make posts on Lemmy? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I noticed the other day that the majority of the content on [email protected] are made by accounts that are deleted after making some posts. Most often no comments are made by these burner accounts, but sometimes they will create a new separate account to respond to comments.

Is there any real privacy benefits for this over something like having a single separate account you post only images and no text posts?

Is there a tool that facilities creating short-term accounts like this?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, I actually had that originally but I changed it for reasons.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

i see ๐Ÿง https://lemmy.world/post/26093585

"1 posts, 0 comments"

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

I'm not sure how to best link communities. Voyager and the site in browser seem to work different. So, I'm kinda playing around with it.

But yeah, that thread explains why I'm asking. I wouldn't have really paid that much attention if they didn't start responding with rude comments to anyone who simply brings up that they use burner accounts to make posts.