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I don’t want to be an internet person

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Re: I don’t want to be an internet person

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Post by coldtea »

>Like most online culture, it all feels so profound until you realize that he hasn’t said anything at all.

So pretty much like TFA... Which is basically a virtue signalling hit piece (the target even asks "if they're planning to write a hit piece").

"The content of his work would repel, or simply confuse, a traditional viewer"

... and then the author points to a screenshot of a tweet (the "drop out of college, default on your student loans" etc (of which the most controversial part is about not getting the covid vaccine) that would seem totally quaint under lots of pretty tame contexts (from 60s counter-culture and 70s punk fanzines all the way to modern leftists), as if the average Joe is the standard after which anything becomes scary...

>To 99.9 percent of the population, Charlie is nobody

So just like the author?

Re: I don’t want to be an internet person

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Post by jzellis »

The worst thing about these people isn't that they're shitty edgelords spouting nonsensical gobbledygook about NFTs like they've discovered fire. The worst thing about them is that they're uniformly boring in every conceivable way. Great, some submillennial has made his own version of ZooTV on a dying social network. That must be terribly exciting if you've never seen any media ever that came out before Gossip Girl. Yaaaaaawwwwwn.

Re: I don’t want to be an internet person

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Post by 2Gkashmiri »

FeistySkink wrote: post #3
2Gkashmiri wrote: post #2

nice. here is my idea.... i was online from my pre teens time. i actually had to wait a 'few' years to get my own email address. back then, there was no "social media", no algorithm and you were taught to not give your real "A/S/L" because people could track you down and hurt you and all that. oh the days. i adopted this randomuser handle, not linking my accounts from one service with another, not reusing handles, no…

How do you avoid being doxxed based on your writing style?

Wow. Interesting question.

I don't have a second account so I checked stylometry and it gave me bunch of names that I know are not me. Maybe I will try with a new second account and confirm.

Second, stylometry can dox me how? My current handle is not attached to anywhere else on internet and even if someone did HN/reddit/twitter stylometry analysis, how will that reach my home and or identity of my passport? Its not like I post anything online in my own name. Haven't in actual years.

So assuming an adversary was trying to find me and did see my reddit or active twitter account, so... What? Short of breaking into it and checking the 2fa number (which I avoid at all costs) how ? Maybe amazon but I don't write reviews so ..... How would you go about this?

Re: I don’t want to be an internet person

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Post by 2Gkashmiri »

causi wrote: post #4
FeistySkink wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you avoid being doxxed based on your writing style?

Someone could use my writing style to link my online identities together. How does that help them doxx me when there is nothing written under my real name?

Yeah, my question too

Re: I don’t want to be an internet person

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Post by mattgreenrocks »

> I don’t want to be anything like these people. I don’t want to be an internet person.

I love this. I got a similar vibe from people who were "too good at IRC," way back in the day. They had a constant, sarcastic, tired energy about them. They had difficulty being genuine about anything. They knew so much and yet they were so stuck in their life somehow. And that sucked the life out of them.

It's like they were too tied to this vague idea of being online that they weren't willing to sacrifice it to have a better life.

The Internet is a tool, not an endpoint.

Re: I don’t want to be an internet person

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Post by dbspin »

throwaway32433 wrote: post #9
causi wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Someone could use my writing style to link my online identities together. How does that help them doxx me when there is nothing written under my real name?

https://stylometry.net/user?username=causi You don't need to give out your name and address to be doxxed, there's enough information from your comments across your accounts to reasonably identify you if someone wanted. MIT did a study on 'anonymised' data and found out it only took something like 2 data points to identify someone.

Perhaps, but the site above doesn't seem particularly effective. I have an alt for reasons of convenience I use about equally regularly to my main. It's not even listed on the set of likely candidates. Meanwhile I've five spurious correlations above .6.

Re: I don’t want to be an internet person

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Post by syntheweave »

I found XOXO conference to be much the same way. The attendees were capable of some basic social grace, but having manifested from the context of "internet people," they lacked substance in person.

It's not hard to not be an internet person. You just have to decide to actually study something, anything, and to a deep level. Once you do that the grounding manifests itself and then you have more important priorities that preclude drifting around like that.

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