Warn users about public availability of handle history

[hotbees]

Describe the Feature

Third-party services like https://clearsky.app/, https://skytools.anon5r.com/, and https://pht.kpherox.dev/ make it trivial to view the history of every handle an account has used and, with the third site, even see every DID a handle has been associated with (and then view their histories). Additionally, while clearsky seems to respect account deletion, the latter two do not.

This can have serious privacy and safety implications for users who are unaware of this and unintentionally associate their real name with their online identity, or associate different online identities that they intended to keep separate. People will get doxxed, stalked, harassed, and outed. This has never been so trivial on other popular social media sites which users are currently migrating from en masse, and as such, many are likely to not even consider it when changing handles.

I believe it's imperative that warnings be added to the screens where users create or change handles that any handle they use will be permanently and publically associated with their account. There should also be some mention of this elsewhere on the site, such as in the privacy page.

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Describe Alternatives

In my ideal world this handle history would not be accessible, but I understand that's probably a deeply rooted protocol level thing and out of scope for this repo.

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[pinklatte]

Hello. I just saw this post and I'm not very tech savvy at all. I was wondering what you meant by "unintentionally associate their real name with their online identity, or associate different online identities that they intended to keep separate"? Does this mean exposing for example multiple accounts that a user has logged in to the app? Like if I had Handle 1 logged into bsky, and then sometime later logged into another account using Handle 2 (and switch between these accounts regularly using the same device), both Handle 1 and Handle 2 will be associated to one person and this is all public? Sorry if I misunderstood 🙏