• 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