If there’s a personal information field, filling it with random noise is marginally better than leaving it blank. The pronouns field is new but I’ve noticed a lot of women friends (that have gender neutral usernames and profile pics, and no linked social media) opting to not use it or set it to he/him because having it filled out accurately caused trolls and bots and incels to fill their DMs.
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WaterSword@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months agowhy’d you lie about pronouns lol. Unless your trans and haven’t come out yet I don’t see a reason to. Rest of your comment is valid though and I agree. I don’t think anything that advertising companies haven’t found out about me through other means anyway can be gotten from this data.
pory@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
What @LWD@lemm.ee said, but I do think it would be about profiling (for whatever reason), and the less they know, the better.
LWD@lemm.ee 2 months ago
In the US there are several laws about providing abortions to women. If one such group existed on Discord, it could be used by legal, extralegal, and extremist interests to target those women.
Trans people just aren’t official targets of legal discrimination across every US state.
Yet.