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• --- Has it gotten too easy to get doxed recently? ---
• 401 - Unauthorized Name (2025-12-30 13:22 ID:amKVfUlK )
• Feels like all I hear about anymore is people getting doxed for being weird or whatever now. I know it's nothing new, even 20 years ago you've had people blackmailed (and yes, eventually doxed) for being weirdos, but it seems like now they straight up get doxed quicker and easier than ever, why is that? People just getting too stupid with info? Sites collecting more info? Most search work getting replaced with "Hey chat gpt, where does xXxanime69xXx live?"? \n\n
• 406 - Name Not Acceptable (2025-12-30 19:26 ID:yyEGpVxQ )
• I actually always wondered about this. I mean, how in the hell do people even find what some twitter account's e-mail (and its password) actually is? \n\n
• 408 - Name Request Timeout (2025-12-30 20:04 ID:xmenvcwY )
• Digital ID will make it so much easier \n\n
• 403 - Name Forbidden (2025-12-30 20:37 ID:N8dPbCEo )
• All of the above, really.
• Big Data is chowing down on every bit of data it can get its hands on, so I think privacy these days can sometimes be less about "can someone get this info?" and more about "does someone care enough to hunt down this info?"
• Because if they want to, it's probably out there.
• But also, if you're all over social media giving that info out yourself, then it's that much easier.
• Maybe also involve social issues around people jumping to that option quicker than they used to, but I don't know as much on that front.
• > >Most search work getting replaced with "Hey chat gpt, where does xXxanime69xXx live?"?Apparently Grok's the one you want to turn to for that stuff.
• 405 - Name Not Allowed (2025-12-31 11:12 ID:wCfMz3VB )
• It definitely has gotten easier to dig up shit on strangers now. Some of it has to do with how people on the Internet have stopped caring about covering their tracks. Genuinely seen people sign up for porn websites using their same exact usernames they use for their professional github accounts, actual computer sciencists who you think would know better. \n\n The big reason I blame though is that more information is publicly available online than before. There has always been lots of public records around, whether recording property ownership, business actions, or who you voted for. In the past most of this could only be accessed by scheduling an appointment, traveling to the record repository, spending time looking for whatever you need, then paying any fees they charge you. But alot of that stuff has been getting put online recently, typically with no payment necessary. My home country of Norway has public tax returns, Norwegians can easily find out each others street addresses using those records. \n\n Im also counting corporate leaks as public information, which oftens contains loads of shit people thought was private. Passwords usually aren't leaked unencrypted but emails, billing information, phone numbers, and old revealing forum posts are often left in plain text. With how leaky internet service companies have become these past two decades, anyone with a modest account collection online will have a trail someone could follow by matching up information from all this stolen data. \n\n Not sure why people freak out so much over doxxing. It is creepy/embarrassing and all knowing you've been exposed to the world, but nothing big will come out of it for most people. Maybe someone orders you a bunch of pizzas or tells your parents all the slurs you've been hurling online. But someone like xXxanime69xXx won't see anything further than that. \n\n
• 409 - Name Conflict (2026-01-12 19:16 ID:VsOHe81L )
• >>1 \n\n > >straight up get doxed quicker and easier than everUnlike the solo schizos of yesteryear the unhinged now congregate in places like doxbin to crowdsource dogpiles over internet beef. For some of them doxxing is a hobby--they participate in a community of shared interests and get cred for their work, just the same as anything else. \n\n I'm friends with people who have been in the blast radius of some really stupid shit and while the harassment eventually did stop it went on for the better part of a year. One of them gave the police station a heads up about swat calls and within the week he had cops at his door who were following through the the report but knew it was probably fake so they didn't bust his door down and kill him. I still think about that poor guy they killed in Kansas a few years ago. The internet IS scary! \n\n
• 409 - Name Conflict (2026-01-13 18:01 ID:amKVfUlK )
• >>8
• It does seem like in the current age, people lose their shit and resort to harsh tactics over the smallest shit now. But then again, I don't really think much changed, you've had people get doxed and similar shit for being emo or a sonic fan. \n\n I swear, people are just psychopaths now and want anyway to take each other down, they know murder and physical harm gets them into hot shit, so they go for doxing as they're perfectly fine as long as they're behind a proxy of sorts. \n\n
• 405 - Name Not Allowed (2026-01-14 07:15 ID:Lrv6U7lD )
• >>9
• I also get that feeling from reading about old 2channel drama and episodes. They really were an "internet hate machine". Being able to hide behind a screen and anonymity brought out the worst in people. \n\n As far as I know, this kind of behavior got traction on the western internet through SA and then moved over to 4chan. But I don't know firsthand and am just going on what I've read. \n\n Pre-internet I'm sure there are examples of this same behavior of collective bullying/targeting someone and taking joy in the drama. It seems like a very primal thing. Maybe it makes people feel good, like they're part of a group. Maybe it makes them feel accepted because they get to be on the bullying side, the "cool" side, while the target is on the bullied side.
• It's a way of getting acceptance both by being part of a group effort and through putting someone else down (establishing your superiority and belonging in the group) \n\n
• 403 - Name Forbidden (2026-01-28 17:21 ID:Np1CsWzW )
• The only people still left on the internet are the most unhinged bad actors imaginable. It's truly depressing. It was a lot easier to just put up a websight 20 years ago and have fun without worrying about people trying to literally ruin your life and/or kill you \n\n
• 401 - Unauthorized Name (2026-01-29 22:37 ID:14l3S1qd )
• >>12
• Depends on the website.
• What websites are you taking about?
• 4chan, Reddit, or Twitter, yes.
• Some kind of small site for a specific topic or hobby, no \n\n
• 406 - Name Not Acceptable (2026-01-29 23:20 ID:Lrv6U7lD )
• >>13
• I want to elaborate on this more:
• Large sites incite bullying behavior from people. Similar to what I wrote in >>10 \n\n > >Pre-internet I'm sure there are examples of this same behavior of collective bullying/targeting someone and taking joy in the drama. It seems like a very primal thing. Maybe it makes people feel good, like they're part of a group.When there's a large site, there's a large group. It becomes easy and fun for people to team up and bully. There's a large group to prove your worth in. There's a large group to get absorbed into and act like a jerk in (much harder to do that when it's just you and few other people on a site + there's no incentive to). Pretty much everything that I wrote in >>10 applies to large groups. It's the same kind of bullying behavior that happens in schools, just moved onto the internet.
• Usually large sites are also "centralized sites". 4chan, reddit, twitter. They have massive populations, so this behavior can flourish there. I'm not someone who uses or browses Fediverse sites, but I imagine each "node" (or server, or whatever they call it) has its own smaller community, so there is probably less bullying going on. \n\n For small sites or chatrooms - it's like I said, there is less incentive to bully because it won't gain you approval from anyone. If anything, the people in the group will want to throw you out if you begin to act like a bully. And it is more intimidating to act aggressive as an individual.
• Besides for that, the people who go on these sites are more relaxed in general. They aren't there to talk about politics; there aren't controversial posts being fed to them through feeds. They are there usually to talk about some specific hobby and to socialize a bit. Even in small places that are meant just for socialization, you'll find that these people have a relaxed demeanor, like a friend group who knows each other in real life. They won't be hesitant to share their real names, their faces, the general locations of where they live because there's a sense of trust. Usually these people are older too.
• Sometimes you'll find a place where the only conversation is meta drama. "I heard he left the Discord." "That's because so-and-so kicked him out" "What did he do to get kicked out?" "He said this about so-and-so...". It's nonsense and the result of young bored people being together in the same place. Just get out of there. \n\n Sure, you'll find nerds being evil online. Sites that are designed to harass people like kiwifarms. That's also a result of the collective bullying phenomenon. If a lone actor does this, he is a truly disturbed person. But a large portion of nerdy people, my favorite group, are the ones who want to talk about the subject at hand and joke around a bit. You'll find these people in tech related IRC channels. The people who get involved in nonsense drama/bullying are usually the bored ones (like I said, they are usually young people. I'm hesitant to say this, but there may also be a correlation with not-nerdy people and levels of drama, since they go on the internet mostly just for entertainment with no particular topic to talk about in mind. But anyway, I'm not someone who hates "normies" and I think those who generalize are foolish.) \n\n These are my thoughts. I'm too lazy to read them over and edit them properly, so it's long. \n\n
• 401 - Unauthorized Name (2026-01-30 21:02 ID:ZtlgTvTs )
• Invasion of privacy for sure and also an all around disturbing activity.
• It doesn't matter if their targets put all the shit on the net themselves because obsessing that much over every single minute thing they do is just insane. \n\n
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