I said fussed with privacy shitcoins, I never recommended them to anyone, contributed to the ecosystem, spoke at conferences, wrote an article, did a podcast or vlog.

Simply believing disinformation doesn't make one a spook, pushing that information psuedo-professionally does.

Using a DNM in the first place implies dick-all knowledge of privacy.

Why would someone doing something illicit use a honeypot like that? phone a CIA hotline by using Tor? Correlate a payment with a listing? Correlate a userbase?

DNM's are a terrible idea if your goal is to hide your commerce, and their not using Lightning is a great signal. The real dark markets are clearnet encrypted messengers and offline comms, using cash, favors, Bitcoin, and countless other means of exchange.

People getting locked up for using it wrong are using other things wrong too if their goal is privacy, because Bitcoin alone can't incriminate you. It's a rope long enough to hang yourself with, like any good tool.

Shitcoins doesn't fix that. They do the opposite. Per the DNM example, shitcoins makes people even more careless, because with a false sense a security they do something stupid like use a DNM.

EDIT: and on LN receiver privacy... thats bolt12 disinformation pushed by spooks working for blockstream and grant money. Privacy oriented LN shops have been using randomized scids for a few years now.