You can search the username and their history will come up though.

History hidden from one's Reddit profile is now hidden from author: Reddit searches as well. This was not originally the case.

I had a guy suddenly start stalking me, following me around and posting rude comments in response to every post I made -- his username was even a slight modification of mine. I was starting to get pissed until he posted "Mom always did like me better" and I realized it was my brother who had discovered my username while hanging out in my room.

And thats why I keep accounts separate. I don't link anything to anything, I have different usernames on different services and whatnot. Even if someone somehow figures out my (now deleted) Discord and reddit usernames and starts spamming them to someone, I can just say "well thats not me lol" In that hypothetical scenario, I'd hope they people I spent time chatting with, would believe me and not the weirdo who started spamming someones reddit history.

But also, I don't care. I try to be myself all the time, so at worst, the creeps will just be spamming stuff that I normally do/say.

I got banned for making fun of a nonexistent race, and I was doing it to mock the concept of racism itself.

But if I hide my history, I will not have the satisfaction of wasting the time of a belligerent no-lifer...

How do you feel about the lack of obfuscation on Fediverse? Piefed hides votes but otherwise we're all kind of wide open to eachother

I don't understand how that's supposed to work, you'd have to have posted some bad takes, and even if you did, "hey I made the wrong call based off what I believed at the time, I now understand where I was misled" isn't going to turn anyone against you.

It really only affects people who don't stand behind their words.

This is why I regularly go through and delete my history. Yeah I know a lot of it is recoverable if someone really digs or especially if they're actually recording me specifically but I can at least make it harder to do casually. I just wish there was a similar tool to powerdeletesuite for reddit but for Lemmy.

The option to hide post history here would be nice, but the culture here isn't one that encourages users to dig through each others post history anyway.

Yes. It’s not good for reddit’s business if you can easily tell bot accounts, so they introduced this new feature

Reddit started with fake users. It has always been part of their culture and history. Of course they will allow bots to hide their post history. It's the only way they get users to consistently post.

Bots or nazis. It's real convenient that we can't see the posts they make on /r/GenZFourthReich or whatever

I mean I have mine hidden. Have wanted the feature for years. Really wish lemmy would add it, but so far they've refused.

Yeah I've been stalked and death threatened myself, but only here. Hurray for .ml users, alienating the world one worker at a time!

I've had someone dig through my comment history as well, the funny thing was everyone else in the comments was pointing out they were wrong.

It creates far more issues than it benefits. Hiding enables bad actors much more so than not hiding does, as it allows them to more easily disguise their history of bad faith arguing.