• Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgOPEnglish
    117·
    3 months ago

    Interesting to see 10 downvotes for 27 upvotes, seems like people want to have that debate again.

        • DerisionConsulting@lemmy.caEnglish
          4·
          3 months ago

          The only thing that we can confirm, is that you are the account you are currently posting on.

          It is very easy to impersonate someone in the Fediverse.

          • Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            2·
            3 months ago

            Taking one alt example to reply.

            You are correct, but interestingly enough I noted that most of the instance admins would reach out to me when I create my alt to check if I am actually me.

            So it is indeed possible, but there are some light checks.

            Also with the amount of posts and comments I made on the feddit.org alt, I would have noticed it early.

            I just added a note about the feddit.org alt in my bio to make this more clear.

        • blindbunnyEnglish
          59·
          3 months ago

          Bro the fediverse isn’t Pokemon you don’t have to catch your username on every instance

          • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgOPEnglish
            17·
            3 months ago

            Unfortunately, with federated moderation being broken and forcing people to have a local account to mod communities, you can end up with a bunch of alts.

            Also I use them for different topics as we don’t have multi communities.

            I actually created this one to follow the “meta” stuff happening everywhere

            • blindbunnyEnglish
              71·
              3 months ago

              That’s fair I didn’t think of it from a moderation standpoint

          • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
            81·
            3 months ago

            It is worth making accounts on a few instances for things like cross instance moderation, testing, or seeing content that isn’t federated out