also in terms of safety education:
use an alias. please. make it impossible or at least very difficult to google your internet handle and find your workplace.
I use the name Shel Raphen. it's the same as my pen name for poetry. Googling Shel Raphen will never turn up my legal name. Shel *is* my real first name.
If you google my legal name you'll find my professional identity, and not my poet identity. I can disclose to potential employers that Shel Raphen is my pen name if desired.
Don't identify the company you work for in public places. I say "a childcare non-profit" I don't say the name and I avoid posting selfies where my org's logo is visible.
Don't identify the town you live in. I say "Western Massachusetts" I don't say the specific town. If you're in NYC or something stick to NYC and don't say Uptown Manhattan
You can protect yourself without being extremely secretive
This isn't meant to blame you if you get doxxed or targeted. This is to help.
I want you to be in a place where if you get screencapped and posted on some KurloFrames-type harassment forum that you KNOW you're safe. Google your username regularly.
With decentralized networks you can further protect yourself with a vague non-unique username. I'm not the only "Shel." Make yoruself "Tom" @ "Domain" and nobody will be able to google "Tom" and find all your accounts
@boots yeah that's pretty good. lol