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[โ€“] QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Your Lemmy account can likely be used to identify you, given a big enough data set.

[โ€“] Vespair@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Undoubtedly, especially since I haven't taken particular steps to obfuscate my identity here.

But as I said in a comment below, I'm more worried about some unhinged nutbag online randomly targeting me than being a person of interest by any nefarious groups or organizations.