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Small-Scale Question Sunday for December 11, 2022

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

This is your opportunity to ask questions. No question too simple or too silly.

Culture war topics are accepted, and proposals for a better intro post are appreciated.

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Does Reddit use any kind of cross-account tracking system between multiple accounts? I've had interactions on a throwaway recently where it really felt like reddit knew who I was and almost, directed not just me to subreddits but people to me on that basis. It's...freakish. It's making me paranoid.

Supposing it was true, have you considered that you might just be predictable? All the illusions in the world cannot hide revealed preferences/behavior.

I am highly predictable, but to predict me would require a degree of granularity that I didn't think Reddit had achieved. Politically I'm not predictable in the way that a partisan Republican is predictable, or in the way a grievance studies M.S. is predictable, but probably if you knew me well enough or just read all my Q.C.'s on themotte you could figure me out. But that's a category so small I would expect it to escape the notice of a big sorting machine.