I don’t really use them, lately I thought if I want my voice/influence to be heard on a wider audience, I need to join the corporate social media platforms first.
my strategy is to slowly convert my followers to follow me on pleroma/mastodon by telling them if they want to see more/relevant posts, go to my fediverse account.
Instagram isn’t necessary but twitter and youtube is. I haven’t found a way to make an account privately. does anyone have any ideas? it would be really helpful
so the things I need
- a vpn for twitter since it doesn’t work on tor
- a phone number
edit; I tried 1984 and it asked for personal info for the domain. use njal.la instead.
It might be virtually impossible to create a private google account on any device which you use for browsing the web, as they have a million ways of fingerprinting via things like invisible captcha, but knowing they know who you are doesn’t necessarily detract from having privacy from other people and organisations.
so, using TOR and a my own hosted vpn wouldn’t work you say?
In terms of using Tor to mask your identity from global surveillance companies “god eyes” (I include Alphabet in that category) I’m skeptical, especially when dealing in large files like video.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/08/building-a-new-tor-that-withstands-next-generation-state-surveillance/
https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/896-Tor-0day-Finding-IP-Addresses.html
But for one off projects they might not bother due to cost.