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Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users: Leak show feds tracking anti-ICE Reddit users like "Budget-Chicken-2425"
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this post was submitted on 08 Feb 2026
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No. That is just the nature of public social media. It comes down what you choose to share when it comes to risk, so the same amount as reddit.
But, userbases who behave more like old school forums are more likely to not share personal stuff like other social media such as facebook, Instagram, tiktok, etc which have drawn people who want to publicly catalog their personal lives.
For actual privacy that's better left to encrypted private messaging like signal and so on. Social media isn't the place to expect privacy.