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I wouldn't call this paranoia, this seems like pretty standard opsec. In fact I would even say this is pretty lax on opsec. My online presence is pretty similar to yours but I won't even leave comments anymore. 

In this digital age where almost everything you do online is archived or cached in some way, the best way to win is to not play at all. I still consider deleting the few online accounts I have currently.

>>2947
The alternative would be to stop caring, rid yourself of everything which you stand to lose and post with the expectation that all of it will eventually being tied back to you.

eventually be*

>>2947
>I still consider deleting the few online accounts I have currently.
OP here. I've deleted most online accounts I don't use anymore (at least the ones I'm aware having). And I even consider deleting my Instagram account (despite not using it except when I want to check 1-2 artists' accounts in rare occasions), my alt discord account and my alt twitter account.

>>2947
>My online presence is pretty similar to yours but I won't even leave comments anymore. 
Based. I should do the same too.

>>2942 (OP) 
I have a steam account, a discord for talking to friends, and that's about it as far as public facing accounts go. I have a bit of privacy paranoia and prefer to rotate emails for accounts and such but that may be overkill.

I don't think it's paranoid to want privacy in an age of increasing surveillance

>>2951
Honestly if that's all you use Instagram for I wouldn't give it too much thought. My only concern there would be if you had used real personal info when signing up such as a personal email or phone number.
Alt accounts are good for anonymity but at the end of the day they're just more accounts that can be tied to you.
>>2952
Most social media apps have a feature where you can actually see every comment you've ever posted and you can delete them all manually. Youtube had it at one point but I can't see to find it anymore.

>>2954
It should still have it, somebody made a script to mass-delete comments but it's not very fast or reliable.

You can make any given identity you want as doxxable as you want. What matters is how much of a target said identity is. For example, I could go on Google Maps right now and pick any random address and proclaim that I've "doxxed" that random person, or stalk someone random on the street, follow them home, and, boom, I have their address. But there isn't much of a motive for me to do anything with said addresses/info because they're just random people who have never done anything warranting or inviting hostility from me.
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So if you have, let's say, a cooking channel that you're 100% confident is unlikely to cause people to want to dox you in the first place, you can put your real name front and center (a lot of YouTube personalities do this). The main issue is when your identity is "controversial" for whatever reason or you can foresee one of your identities "going sour" & giving a cause for doxxing. In those cases, you want to put as much of a gap as possible between said identities and any that tie to your real one. However, there's nothing wrong with being "paranoid" even with your safe identities since it's sometimes an imperceptible slip-up or something you would never have guessed that leads back to your real identity. For example, if by some extreme bad luck your IPs get leaked for both a safe identity & an unsafe one in some data breach(es) & they happen to be the same & now everyone can see that, suspiciously, your two otherwise separate identities are tied to this same IP address. That's one of the few cases where a VPN actually would have "protected your privacy".

>>2954
>My only concern there would be if you had used real personal info when signing up such as a personal email or phone number.
The only personal info stuff I did in the past was using my personal email for signing up at various sites. But now I avoid that and I use my alt email for that stuff.

>Alt accounts are good for anonymity but at the end of the day they're just more accounts that can be tied to you.
Pretty much. Which is why I want to delete them.

>>2956
>The main issue is when your identity is "controversial" for whatever reason
In the current year everything is "controversial". Like having a normal anonymous twitter account where you only do stuff like sharing screenshots from your favorite video games and wholesome fanarts you've made. Like it happens to many sfw artists (including teenage girls) that get harassed at social media for "using the wrong skin color" at certain video games characters. And I mean actual harassment like getting spammed with death threats. 

Even friends of mine with barely any presence at the internet and zero "controversial" takes get doxxed just for having the "wrong hentai fetishes".

>>2942 (OP) 
>stalkers, doxxers, spammers, harassers, trolls etc.
Who would want to stalk, dox, spam, harass, or troll you?

>>2971
Me

>>2971
Terminally online schizos. Like the discord retards that will send you friend request just to continue their retarded online debates in DMs. And all that over the most retarded reasons. Like when I was in a discord group for anime and I called Nana "overrated" with everyone there acting like I've advocated for minorities' genocide and then banned me.

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>>2973
Forgot meme related

I really get this. One could say "just don't step on any toes and nobody will want to doxx you!" but that's pretty much impossible. There's too many psychotic weirdos on the internet, who will take everything personally and get offended over anything, not to sound like a boomer. This feels especially true for online artists, like the other anon mentioned how people will get harrassed for drawing the "wrong skin color". Does anyone here remember that Twitter user who got death threats because their white Animal Crossing character had a "black" hairstyle? You can't even talk about video games you like without pissing off these retards.
It really sucks, because I'd definitely like to be more social over the internet, but it's really hard to trust a lot of people when everything you say can end up being screenshotted and used as an excuse to doxx you and your family

>>2975
>One could say "just don't step on any toes and nobody will want to doxx you!"
I hate all this victim blaming bullshit. Like the centrist cucks that defend far left terrorists' and niggers' violence with excuses like "Just don't be provoking!". Yet when I call rape victims "provoking" for dressing and acting like sluts in public suddenly I am the bad guy and worse than the rapists themselves.

>>2976
Also I hate the "Just ignore them and they'll fed up" bullshit mentality, like they did during Gamergate. Which is why I reply to these fags with this: "Just ignore the termites at your home and they'll leave.".

>>2975
It's something you do in conjunction with each other. The best defense against doxing is not being someone worth doxing. The second best defense against doxing is good opsec. There's no reason to not practice both just in case

>>2978
>The best defense against doxing is not being someone worth doxing
That's the thing now: They're so addicted with doxxing others that they now dox literally whom people who mind their own business. Hell, they're even still obsessed with ex lolcows that have touched grass long time ago like Andrew Dobson with them targeting innocent people because they assume that it's Dobson with new account.

>>2979
Who is 'they'?

>>2980
The doxxers. Duh! Like the KiwiFarm ones.

>>2973
>>2974
Ok then lol, just ignore them and move on

>>2979
never enter their radar
never engage with those communities
never befriend or act kind to anyone from these groups

The problem is that as soon as you talk with anyone from there, or get involved in any way, you enter that part of the internet and unless you cut people off you're never leaving it. I saw it happen with many communities I was part of. You let in one guy who found kiwifarms yesterday and thinks he's the shit, he starts bringing up random drama, soon a sizable portion of the community is involved in whatever is happening that makes it unusable and unfun. The remedy is swift action and ruthless knee to the neck of any attempt to bring up 4chan, kiwifarms, soyjack, etc. We get, you say nigger and think you're the shit but please shut the fuck up and let me enjoy the internet in peace.

If I was a moderator anywhere, I'd honestly follow this site motto close of "no drama" unless it's actually relevant like a tech server discussing some major happening or controversy in the TECH space. No doxxing or harassement.

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>>2989
>never enter their radar
how?

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>>2987
What have you done that would cause KF or anyone else to think that doxing you might result in lulz? KF, so far as I can tell, generally confines their activities to obnoxious Internet douchebags like Keffals.

>>2998
You're either ignorant or stupid.

>>3000
Nice GET.  Now, once again, please explain this.  I never had an account at Kiwi Farms or Something Awful.  I have seen people get doxed.  It has invariably come as a result of behaving like a belligerent lunatic online for an extended period of time.  If someone does this long enough, someone else is indeed likely to find amusement in the idea of obtaining and posting his dox.  If, on the other hand, we are talking about some random individual posting intermittently on an Internet discussion forum pertaining to prewar Siamese radio dramas, why would anyone care?  4chins is a site with enough notoriety to motivate a person or persons as yet unknown to dox Hiroshimoot's mod squad.  It's happened to a number of individuals.  The common thread, generally speaking, is that these are individuals with some degree of very negative notoriety, generally resulting from their own monomaniacal devotion to shitting in the punch bowl that is the Internet and not taking a hint, usually for years on end.  There have been exceptions, but it's unusual.

Nothing about me or my life is interesting enough to anyone whatsoever for there to be any point in going to the trouble to obtain my personal information and post it.  I am boring.  I am nobody.  Nobody could conceivably care.  This is, I think, the norm for well-adjusted adults who use this vast and intricate series of TOOBS(tm) that is the Interwebs.  There are certainly lots of cranks and kooks out there, lots of creeps and weirdos vastly more entertaining than I to seek out for such entertainment.  There's never been a shortage of them.  I have long laughed at them whenever they did things online I found amusing, sure.  But I'm not one of them, nor am I a celebrity, nor am I an "influencer."  I don't spend much time worried about a conspiracy that's out to get me, because I don't have Main Character Syndrome.

>>2998
Just disagree with them and that's more than enough reason for these schizos to dox you even if they've previously agreed with other posts of yours.

Also don't expect logic to work with these retards. Especially when they pretend hating trannies and pedos while the forum's owner is also a pedo tranny but SOMEHOW they still defend and glorify him.

>>3000
Seems like he's both