Stylometry
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Jeff Kaufman’s “Good Reasons for Alts” is a very insightful read.
Alt in this context stands for “alternate account”.
Apparently there’s a whole ordeal dedicated to studying linguistic styles from people in order to uniquely cluster / identify them, this is what stylometry is.
Like Jeff, I agree that:
(If you do want somewhat more protection now, however, I think best practice is running your alt comments through an LLM to change the style.)