Last night someone asked me "you're xenohumanist on sofiechan?". Yes but also, while on twitter you might only have 1 or 2 alts, on sofiechan its quite normal to have several hundred nyms.
Dox risk grows with the square of posts per nym. You should keep your identities small.
Dox risk grows with the square of posts per nym. You should keep your identities small.
In this era of relative freedom of speech it's important to remember that we often live under extreme ideological control in which careful thought outside of status quo becomes difficult. Anonymity is crucial to healthy discourse. Pseudonymity is not enough, and here's why:
Almost every significant pseudonymous "anon" thinker from some years ago has been doxed and attacked for thoughts various special interests don't like. This has a major chilling effect on speech and thought, locking in idiotic and cowardly public discourse. But how do they dox?
People get doxed when their long history of activity under a unified name (no matter how initially anonymous) includes enough a) ideas someone doesn't like and b) clues about their identity that both a dox and a narrative of guilt can be constructed to target attacks.
Doxing-based censorship only really works if that long history of posting can be tied together. Multiple low-probability pieces must come together, so dox risk grows with something like the square of tied posting history. Solution: disposable nyms.
Pseudanons (posts tied together) can be doxed. Actual anons (posts disconnected from each other) cannot be doxed. Disposable identities is the black bloc tactic of free-thinking philosophy.
This means we need tools and platforms for public discourse that make disposable anonymity easy to use. This also puts a higher burden on platform-level curation of good posters. The key IMO is integrating platform-level reputation systems with social anonymity.
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