2w ago

Are there any reasonable privacy benefits for creating temporary accounts to make posts on Lemmy?

I noticed the other day that the majority of the content on !comicstrips@lemmy.world are made by accounts that are deleted after making some posts. Most often no comments are made by these burner accounts, but sometimes they will create a new separate account to respond to comments.

Is there any real privacy benefits for this over something like having a single separate account you post only images and no text posts?

Is there a tool that facilities creating short-term accounts like this?

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I highly doubt this kind of behaviour makes Lemmy a better place. We have other places for these kinds of things linke anonymous imageboards.
- I agree, but I wanted to get other people's opinions. This user is now following me and downvoting my posts. Even in this very thread.
  
  I see. What an asshole. It'd be best if you brought that up with the sh.itjust.works admins. Maybe they would like to ban them for stalking people, ban-evasion or whatever. And/or !fediverselore@lemmy.ca if you want more attention and drama.
  I'd say this is unacceptable behaviour.
  
  Yeah, for sure. This is a new development, but their pattern shows that they will be using all Lemmy instances they can for this. This started on Lemmy.world, for example.
  Still, separately from the breaking of ToS, I just wanted to get a better understanding of why someone would even spend that much time creating burner accounts. It seems far more effort than it's worth for any possible privacy benefits, unless I'm missing something. That's why I'm asking here.
  
  Idk. The last accounts I suspect to be that person are:
  freeradical@sh.itjust.works
  grdeq1@sh.itjust.works
  nully21@sh.itjust.works
  zealousity9@sh.itjust.works
  debbyg@sh.itjust.works
  top_community_contributor@sh.itjust.works
  never_ready@lemmy.world
  sillybeaver@lemmy.world
  surrounded_by_morons@lemmy.world
  I don't see the point. We could go some more through the comicstrips community and the modlog and puzzle the pieces back together... But I really don't see what kind of privacy this offers. I mean this strange behaviour kind if draws more attention, not less... Maybe they'd like to chime in to tell us.
  Could also be a person with behavioural pecularities, or they're high on drugs.
  
  Seems the Admin took some action over at the community and banned them for: sockpuppet account, disposable email, vote manipulation, ban evasion
  If anything, this leads to more control, more tracking to enforce bans and less privacy for everyone. And adds toxicity. So my final verdict is: No. This takes away privacy.

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