I was a regular on eddit long long ago, in the before times. It was a very different place then.
But I always considered everything to be public and insecure. Because I'm not stupid. Well, not that stupid.
So true. I never really did anything like Reddit or Voat, or whatever until after I retired and had mucho time on my hands, so I was late to all these games. Oh, I did the bulletin boards way back when, IRC, and even some chat game sites on rare occasions, but I've never been the paranoid type. Anything that's free ... is never really free, and most figure that out. So I don't worry about VPNs or Doxxing ... that kinda thing much. Anything I write, I'd say to your face if we were having a discussion. If someone doesn't like it, I could care - LOL.
I never let such stuff bother me, though I was never a Redditor save for a week or two week flyby that proved to me I had no business there. There aren't any sites I frequent where I do anything I wouldn't admit anyway - LOL.