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Noob question: if I share a brick URL, can it be traced back to my github, or my personal identity in any way by the people that I sent it to?



It's designed not to leak any info like that. Anonymity is super important (https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/01/23/being-your-selves-iden... is one of the inspirations for what I want Brick to enable.)

If you find any way to circumvent that, we'll treat it with the same priority as we treat security issues.


Note that if you share a page from a subtree, the reader will see its parents as well, but not siblings.

I.e.

    a
    b
     b2 <- if you share this, 'b' is visible, but 'a' isn't


Good to know, thanks!

Edit: Also thanks for sharing that RF article. Great read.


That RF article pushed me towards making an anonymous Twitter acc, in February, and it was the best decision of 2020 for me. Literally. Highest quality therapy I've had in my life.


Interesting. I don't have an anonymous Twitter, but I'll spout my experimental ideas in private message groups with trusted friends.

Is there something that an anon Twitter could do that the latter couldn't? Broader reach for ideas I suppose.


Hard to say. I have friends too (ha) and I'm not afraid to talk to them about my ideas, but alt Twitter still was different.




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