Some might call me paranoid, but I also change my writing style between sensitive accounts.

Not all, because that would be a bother, but between accounts where I'm a moderator and those where I'm a normal user, I make sure to change my mindset.

On some accounts, I translate everything I write twice for greater anonymity.

> On some accounts, I translate everything I write twice for greater anonymity.

Beware, in some cases uncommon or unique anonymization techniques may make you _easier_ to de-anonymize.

Easier to pinpoint as unique, sure, but de-anonymize? How?

I probably should have just said "cross-reference," but here's a hand-wavy scenario. The gist is, the more information you have on a persona, the more you can filter out identity candidates.

So, for example, if you have unique anonymous accounts for multiple online communities but use an identifiable "anonymization" scheme (and with the right heuristics and AI "magic" this need not be a targeted attack), I can correlate and build a profile on you: Military history enthusiast, knife owner, lives in Maine, Boston U alumni, class of 2001, active hours imply working 9-5, age 39, etc.

Which is probably enough to compare against public records, leaked data, whatever, to pinpoint a single individual.

Perhaps it is paranoid, but you're not alone.

How exactly do you do that ?

That would apply equally to using different usernames on each site, so not really relevant to the point being made here.

I see that implementation now says "Site is closed as of 2023-03-01". Do we know of any alternatives? Ideally I'd like to see if my HN handle brings up my reddit handle, or other cross-site linkages.