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[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I didn't intend to imply that by using the same username across instances you were breaking some sort of rule. Different instances have different moderation policies, different federation policies, and different intents. Having multiple accounts in good faith should not be an issue and was not what I was trying to imply.

Rather, the intention was to show that we know bad actors do this with nefarious intent. Here's an example (they show zero comments as they have been banned with content removed - also I think these ones only had posts not comments anyway):

lemmy search showing many search results for the same name across many instances indicating escort services

this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2023
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