Although i am quite a lurker in Lemmy, i don’t have the time to be an active contributor, nor i wish to give away too much personal information nor i want to add an unnecessary addiction into my life, which is why i don’t maintain a permanent account. However i do periodically have questions that I feel like only communities from Lemmy would be able to answer to my satisfaction, which is why i create burner accounts in my private window which i close after i am done with it.
But after creating many such accounts for this purpose, i feel like i am not doing it properly. I feel guilty abandoning accounts that take up space in servers of instances which are constantly fighting against spam and DDOS attacks; it feels like i am participating in the attack too. However i believe i should not delete the posts, for it may come useful for me in the future and for other people browsing the communities.
What methods should i adopt to further make my use of burner accounts in Lemmy more beneficial to me (in terms of anonymity and future account creations) as well as others (instances in terms of spam and members in terms of posts/comments)? Should I maintain a single account or permanently delete these accounts once i’m done with them?
For context, I use a VPN and Tor Browser and a disposable email for instances requiring email for account creation.
Just curious why you’d go to such lengths to maintain privacy.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say you’re probably of no interest to any authority. Unless you KNOW you’re doing something illegal.
To be clear I’m not saying that we all shouldn’t value privacy but, for example, could you not just keep an account for 6 months then delete?
Or are you worried that some 3 letter agencies will bust through your door within that time frame?
part of the reason why i don’t keep a permanent account is also to not create association or interest with that account, in order to prevent me from becoming addicted by constantly posting or commenting. once i close my browser, the account becomes inaccessible since i don’t remember any credentials. this way i lose my progress of accumulated upvotes and thus I am not incentivized to post/comment for the sake of internet points.
“progress of accumulated upvotes”!
“internet points”!
these are your problem, not privacy
Hmmm I see.
I mean the real solution is practicing self discipline and if it’s not possible then you just quit social media (which is still self discipline but a more clean break kind I suppose).
But you’re the only one that can judge if the negatives of engaging with social media are outweighed by the positives.
You’re already putting a bunch of different barriers in front of yourself to limit social media engagement and maybe that’s an indication of how you should be valuing it in your life? (I.e. even less important than it is now)