Hacker News Reader

Comment by trlima | Hacker News Reader

Thank you, it really does help. This post was me releasing my frustration. I've censored myself a lot more than usual throughout kiwifarm's deplatforming, for fear when they regroup they may attack those who were critical of them. I worry I'd be near the top of the list because I'm also trans.

But I don't want them to win by being silent.

View on HN

Showing basic restraint and not oversharing online seem to be the recipe for not ending up with a thread on Kiwi Farms, so you're probably fine.

This is simply untrue.

EG "I am—well, I was—great at opsec. I got doxxed on farms because someone spent 50+ hours trying to nail me down until he ultimately “compare[d] her tweets to weather history to determine her city, and complied a parametric list of all the profs in nyc and went from there."

I don't see what an out-of-context quote disproves about my hypothesis.

Your assessment that the quote is out-of-context is where the disconnect looks to be.

The OP mentions that they tried to follow good opsec but had an issue, and you mentioned "Showing basic restraint and not oversharing online" as the solution -- which based on OP's opsec comment they looked to follow that.

I still don't know where the quote came from, its context, or if it is a quote in the first place. Don't get me wrong, I am legitimately puzzled by this exchange.

I don't find it puzzling. You're putting the onus of being harassed on OP despite them following what they felt was reasonable opsec, rather than on the people harassing.

At least, that's what your prior comments communicated.

If you paint a giant target on your back while also revealing who and where you are, people that dislike you for whatever reason are going to target you. That is reality and will continue to be reality even without a site like Kiwi Farms.

My initial comment communicated that OP was probably going to be fine. Or not. It's not like I can tell.

Sure, but we have plenty of people who did not paint targets on their back[1], and who didn't reveal who or where they are, and they got doxxed by obsessive trolls at KF. Telling people "you'll be fine, KF won't dox you" is simply untrue for plenty of people who did get doxed.

[1] unless "existing while trans" counts as target-painting.

So your "hypothesis" is that "don't ever post about the weather if you don't want to get harassed and chilling effect'd over being trans" is fine and normal and cool, but "don't run a harassment website if you want to keep free DDOS protection for more than 13 years" is the end of free speech as we know it?

No. Please refrain from putting words into my mouth.

You not knowing how to use a search engine makes you unqualified to talk about the obsessive use of search engines by KF users.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com