Normalize anons. Reboot your identity. Delete your accounts. Start from scratch. You'll find your friends again, don't worry about that. The freedom and the privacy you'll gain is with everyone else.

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nexus 2 years ago
How do you deal with the “loss”? I mean working though the friends not knowing who you are anymore
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Hypnagog 2 years ago
You gain more than you lose. When anonymous you can truly be yourself , and because of that you'll make truly real friends.
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Chrys 2 years ago
My normie "friends" question as to why I want privacy. "What are you doing that requires that much privacy?" "I don't do anything illegal, so I don't care if they track everything" They don't get it, while I'm understanding counter-economics and Bitcoin.
Establishing a web of trust will be hard when you keep deleting your npubs. And if you telegraph your identity change to your web beforehand then it’s kind of unnecessary. Social graphs have their own fingerprint to deanonymize you. Great for privacy and useful for OpSec though if you don’t reestablish connections.
Ask them to look on their phone. They will then show you they care about privacy
If something is that important, they will find a way to contact you.
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james_r 2 years ago
I doubt it, he is too addicted to attention and hype in fact that this advice he is giving is probably so that others will trash their identities and leave more clout on his hands
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JeffDoGood 2 years ago
Go to CVS and buy a prepaid sim card with cash
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Troy 2 years ago
Hiding is for the fearful. It's better to shine as brightly as you can. Be a prime example. Attract as many eyeballs as possible. If you hide, your disappearance will be silent. Also, if you find your friends again, you'll be easily detected.
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Normalize anons. Reboot your identity. Delete your accounts. Start from scratch. You'll find your friends again, don't worry about that. The freedom and the privacy you'll gain is with everyone else.
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Bitcoiners make it almost to the finish line, but then they still dismiss Monero.
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Normalize anons. Reboot your identity. Delete your accounts. Start from scratch. You'll find your friends again, don't worry about that. The freedom and the privacy you'll gain is with everyone else.
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Normalize non-anons. Don’t reboot your identity. Don’t delete your accounts (spoiler: you can’t). Don’t start over finding your friends again. Ask more of clients and relays to support long-lasting identities so you can build connections and grow old with it. Speak louder and more believably than you can when being an anon.
100% ..it's never too late to start making better decisions..
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OT 2 years ago
Or do both. One real, one nym
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Den Yellek 2 years ago
Do this and then give thanks that you do not live in Australia where this is impossible.
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PHILIP 2 years ago
I also changed my github names. Need some time to get it glowing green again
🙄 (How to dox yourself: talking to the same people - speech patterns can be changed but old habits die hard)
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Normalize anons. Reboot your identity. Delete your accounts. Start from scratch. You'll find your friends again, don't worry about that. The freedom and the privacy you'll gain is with everyone else.
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hugedatabase 2 years ago
Being believable is not the goal. Being unbelievable is much more powerful.
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Same name and picture as well you reckon,, or just new nsec?