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I agree with the feeling. These should have been public conversations, like the forums discord "killed".

Hopefully now that there is a website earning money from their chats more people will be willing to make dumps and share them for free.

@some other name

some other name blah blah

So X did Y with Z

etc.

Anonymous is unlikely to be possible with this dataset.

Anonymity is impossible with _any_ dataset.

If you have more than three pieces of information about a person you can unmask them quite easily with nothing more than a google search.

With the current generation of AI I'm sure you can unmask people en-mass.

If only we'd used encryption. Oh well.

It's likely worse than that. Any social graph is likely corrosive for anonymity. Who knows whom, who talks to whom. What platforms they connect on and how often.

As a society we'd be better off trying to make living in glass houses possible, since we're rapidly approaching the point of seeing through everything.

This didn't go well last time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_log_release