Hexbear started during the 2020 BLM protests, where cops were using social media and internet presence to track down activists. They are still doing this, but with less vigor than when police stations were burning down.
This included things like using tattoos on naked bodies, etsy store receipts etc.
Just before the r/cth ban, there was also a problem with chasers and leering objectification, and steps were taken to reduce thirst-posting and the like.
These things combined means that people don’t post selfies or direct identifying information. People post their pets and artwork, but I know I have to make a decision about where and when I post things to make things non-trivial for cops or random chuds. I feel like a unique pet name, breed, and rough region could be enough to track someone down.
Even so, I think I’m bad at it. I feel like if someone knew me and read everything on hexbear they could ID me pretty easily (and I know multiple people in person on hexbear, but we’ve never exchanged usernames).
Idk if there are any hard and fast rules beyond the selfies and direct ID though. I should burn this account.
Edit: removed reference to masculinity
There’s definitely value in spiking your posts with false data to obscure who you are and where you live. Lie about where you live or travel to, what car you drive or where you work/have worked. If you think you’ve revealed a bit too much about yourself, burn your account and make a new one, or better yet, gradually move from one account to another so it’s harder for people to track you to your new acct. Blur out backgrounds in photos you share that may have things like licence plates on cars, shop names or street signs. Think critically about how a drip feed of PII (personally identifiable information) may not be enough to pin you as one individual, but enough yo narrow it to, say, 100 or so who may go to a certain bar or venue, or live on a certain street. A sufficiently motivated chud may think that those odds are good enough to shift from online to offline work and potential harrassment.
For example, I once was a roadie for Pink Floyd, I drive a maserati and live at Mawson base in Antarctica where I research the interactions of penguin guano on endemic moss populations.
I’ve never heard anyone outside aad talk about the fucking moss lol
Yeh it’s its own whole thing. We also have to be careful about our other excreta impacting local microbiota. With warming on the continent even the hormones from our thawing peepee can leech and throw stuff out of whack.
Also my Maserati is purple
Does your Maserati do 185?
Hoo wee you bet it does 185 kph. I’ve only ever driven it at legal and appropriate speeds, though
I’m just a straight man living it big in New Mexico. I HATE weed not a fan of that at all. Love to go out with the boys and hunt some feral hogs such is life in texas
I am a 52 year old white man living in New Hampshire, working on growing my general contracting business and writing letters to the J6 patriots