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@nk @xianc78 @Shadowman311 Here's some tips I've found over time and oh boy there's a lot:
1. Consider what every post you make would look like with your real face and name attached to it. This is honestly the most important one from experience and I follow this all the time. As a bonus learning to paraphrase things will likely convince more people.
2. Never reuse usernames across more than one site, and especially not on any website where you're making yourself a target. Case in point, making a poa.st account is riskier than making a FSE/SPC/bae.st account. Ditto with posting on kf.net (not so much kf.cc, the fedi instance).

Pick an identity from say a movie character or some shit, or something popular + random numbers, or shit go on one of those "identity generator" sites.
3. Be careful when signing up for other sites/joining other Discord servers, especially if they're balls deep in enemy territory and especially if you're going to fuck with them. Use a VPN and different email address. Common sense these days I know, but lots of people still make this mistake.

Plus, you never know which wagie working at the ISP call center that day might give out your address. Remember the very first scene in the movie Hackers once the guy's released from prison where he's calling up the guy to get access to the TV network and pretending to be a tech guy? That happens IRL a lot.
https://blog.joemanna.com/introduction-to-social-engineering-call-centers/
Or here's a more harmless prank call involving social engineering (some of the nastier PrankNet calls revolved around this too which led to $$$ in property damage and lots of charges):
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=h8kWcggio5A

This is more likely with you know, tech industry centered troons and the like.
4. Get your name removed from the "people listing" sites by searching yourself. Protip: voting in many states also gets you onto these and self doxes you. Whoops.
5. This is important too, don't make enemies if you don't want them. This sounds stupid but remember, I know a crusty troon who was whining that "nazis" wanted him dead, before admitting that he was not only doxing people but sending them to his antifa buddies for "direct action". That's like bragging that you're a gang member telling his homies your address.
6. Don't namedrop too many of your interests and hobbies and especially if they're niche shit. If they're niche shit, someone from your past is far more likely to say HE'S THAT GUY.
7. Don't trust anyone too much. Ricky Vaughn (the e-celeb on Twitter who named himself after the Major League character) got doxed in part because of this, and because a lot of political scenes on the fringe devolve into purity spirals and online fights. The same shit goes on with antifa groups all the time.

Plus what if your friend gets a FBI visit and they seize his devices and find your edgy memes? Remember the guy in CVille got 419 years in prison where the evidence that it was a "hate crime" revolved around edgy memes on his phone, and the Jogger case had the same thing apply. Edgy shit that you said while angry can and will be used against you.
8. Probe files for metadata before you post them, .doc/.docx files are the worst offenders along with image files. On a related note, don't fucking click on Google Drive/Docs links unless you're in a private tab/vpn not logged in. If you're logged in it'll tell the uploader who is looking at it.
9. If you're streaming, use another PC or OS install to do it. This is another way people get doxed or have embarrassing shit (usually fetishes) outed. Ditto if you're going to be leaking stuff. If you have a work or school device ALWAYS assume it's backdoored/keylogging/monitoring you.
10. This circles back to 1, but don't post photos of yourself doing anything illegal, like doing drugs or showing off illegal guns. Of course with Red Flag laws about to pass, don't even imply you have guns or might be a part of an illegal political group. Don't put gun maker or gun boomer stickers on your car, don't open carry in Lowe's while wearing an infowars shirt.

@icedquinn @Moon @mystik Regardless of what economic system, I think freedom of association is important. Some people just don't get along.

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@mystik @icedquinn @Moon The solution is to have freedom of association via covenant communities as came up with by Hans Hermann Hoppe.

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I think having the "Be the change you want to see" mindset has been very beneficial for me.

Tired of Windows and MS? Changed to Linux and I'm happy.

Not comfortable with Google? Moved pretty much all my stuff outside of Google's hands, except one old email I barely use.

Tired of Youtube's ads and stuff? I use now Freetube.

Twitter gives me headache? Deleted my Twitter, use Fedi now.

Need cloud stuff? Self host.

Can't find addon downloader on Linux for Elder Scrolls Online? Made my own! :)

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@PhenomX6 Maybe he's LARPing as a soy-leftist just so the government won't take his guns away once they start implementing red-flag laws.

@PhenomX6 Given how crazy the climate and overpopulation agendas have gotten, it wouldn't surprise me if more young men are getting vasectomies than old/middle-age men.

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@Shadowman311 Also, this should be obvious, but if you know how to manufacture or modify guns, explosives, etc DO NOT TALK ABOUT IT!!! Especially if it's illegal. It doesn't matter how brag worthy you think it is. Don't be retarded.

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If you own guns, never talk about them or post pictures of them online, not on social media, not in private group chats, nowhere, keep your firearms ownership to yourself if you wish to continue owning them.
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@LukeAlmighty I think the plants wilting is supposed to represent how these social programs can't get enough tax-payer money to sustain themselves.

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