last post named "cleaning up", i said i needed to clean up my online presence and start taking privacy more seriously. i said i needed to make my online persona and my real life identity less connected. less traceable.

i have done exactly a single thing to do this since then.

i have done removing my address from a website that was also connected to my online identity.

but that is all i have done; woefully inadequate for how serious the post sounded and woefully inadequate for me to consider it adequate cleanup.

my current online alias, tudbut, is forever tainted unfortunately. tainted with things like oversharing, tainted with being used for over 10 years now, tainted with being in parts a more accurate copy of my information than my own brain.

i will have to ditch this alias some time, for the most part. this website will probably stay, but not most of the rest. what is stopping me from doing so already is so far the fact that it will stop me sharing things i make under different aliases. but actually, i can just share those anyway, as long as it isnt indexed by a search engine. this site is some gray area. i probably wont share my other aliases here for the most part.

i am finally uninstalling discord. those who want to talk to me on it are getting sent a message telling them to contact me here.

i am also starting to actually do identity separation on delta. it isnt perfect and people will probably know who i am anyway, but im sure i can make it work. there are definitely possible upsides and not too many downsides. thus: why not. its the paranoid thing to do, which is good im sure. one main goal with that is also to never again have an account that is too big to let go. i do not want another discord situation.

anyways, i feel lighter now (*sets a house on fire*).