The balance between privacy and oversharing

I care a lot about privacy. I always advocate for services that don't collect or sell data. I use VPNs, ad blockers, and am usually careful about sharing too much stuff about me online. This blog goes against that third point, and most of what I write is directly related to myself. Unfortunately, I love talking about things (and myself). The stuff that I post on this blog could dox me or allow people who were interested to build a profile of me. I think about it often when I see the sorts of stuff that other people post on Bear, and in my head I know that 95% of the time it's probably not a big deal to be a little more specific about your personal life. This results in a dilemma where I have some super cool and interesting (I think) topics but don't want to share them because it's personally identifiable information. I have my age in my Discord about me, I have my timezone and I have a link to this blog too. Those are things that would make it very easy for people to find out more…