A friend of mine would like to post an op-ed style political essay about the current turmoil in the Democratic Party about Biden’s fitness. They are concerned about it affecting their career, should it be linked back to them, as the US is highly divided and they knows some of the folks they work with are Republicans, and is not sure about the affiliations of people in their upward chain of command. Divisions shouldn’t and don’t affect careers, but my friend is concerned that posting an emotional opinion piece might cross a line were it linked to them; they want to stay anonynmous.

I think getting something posted more or less anonymously in the Fediverse would be easy; it’s not like anyone is going to bother trying to legally coerce an email out of a Lemmy instance. And I don’t give a shit what my coworkers think, so I can boost the post in Mastodon and such. I was hoping that there’d be something like WriteFreely where they could post, but anonymity appears to be not even a consideration by the main developers.

And then there’s the question of how to get links to the essay out of the Fediverse, where 90% of the people are. I don’t have a Xitter account anymore, and have never had a Facebook account; neither has my friend.

What suggestions does Lemmy have? How, in today’s world, does someone anonymously (I emphasize casual anonymity[^1]) post content?

[^1] not political anonymity. Not in the way that the authorship is going to be pursue by law enforcement; my friend lives in the US where freedom of speech is still more-or-less ensured. However, anonymity sufficient to guard against data miners, correlators, and brokers.

  • Vanth@reddthat.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Create an email address from scratch using a non-google email provider you’ve never used before, do not tie it to any of your existing addresses or profiles. Use the new email to create a profile on any blogging platform. Only ever use that email for that one blogging profile.

    I think it’s simple if your presentation is accurate. Put it in a silo and don’t cross it over with anything else. You don’t have to make it hold up to an FBI investigation that will be sending a warrant to the blogging service to get your identity.

    I would bet a dollar that in most cases like this, the person is the weak link in their own privacy. They share their essay with someone they know, boom, privacy gone.