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submitted 2 weeks ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/fediverselore@lemmy.ca

It might be to avoid impersonation.

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[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 69 points 2 weeks ago

You may not know, but kind of the core developers of lemmy uses the name dessalines.

Since that's the case, the name is an obvious target for trolls, spammers, etc. That's what those accounts are/were.

[-] sexy_peach@feddit.org 56 points 2 weeks ago

It was impersonation until they were banned. Some spammers used these accounts to spam gore and stuff

[-] harcesz@szmer.info 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah, there was one particularly persistent troll in the early Lemmy times that registered that handle on every possible server to spam literal shit.

[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 16 points 2 weeks ago

That particular user is a pro-china troll.

[-] swab148@lemm.ee 25 points 2 weeks ago

And also one of the creators of Lemmy.

[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 28 points 2 weeks ago
[-] radical_larry@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe she's born with it

this post was submitted on 09 Dec 2024
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