alt Hacker NewsMore people should have been aware that human text contains a lot of identifiable information, and a dumb statistical model could do this a decade ago. (There were show hns with Hn user similarity analysis that used a deceptively simple model (if I remember it used like most likely word pairs only) and it was very effective. It got taken down, but the cat has always been out the bag).
So your "anonymous" account could have been linked to your real identity decades ago - your best bet is to not post anything truly incriminating. (Another option is to write something and then pass it through an LLM to rewrite it - not sure how safe that is though)
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For anyone interested in the details, there is a reimplementation with some explanation: https://antirez.com/news/150
Sure, in the days of Markov chains you could already generate nonsense in the style of Shakespeare, so it shouldn't be surprising you could also do the inverse.
But the LLM will trigger on a typo you've made only once, and argue "that's a typical mistake for an Italian" and use those clues. It has a much better prior to make informed decisions.