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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by recursive_recursion to c/meta
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Thank you for the reports however the toxic posts aren't from our admin but a troll impersonator

If you see these accounts, please ban away

Side Note:

  • for anyone that has manual registration verification enabled I'd suggest on verifying with known users on past/pre-existing accounts before accepting duplicates,
    • esp for admin/moderator usernames
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[–] onlinepersona 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Are there any tools that that could help confirm identity? It seems like the input would be the username, but beyond that, I don't know how identity could be proven / how a distinction could be made between an imposter and the "real" user. Usernames aren't unique in the fediverse.

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

The approach I've seen here on Lemmy is to bidirectionally reference alts in each profile

[–] recursive_recursion 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Currently there aren't any that I'm aware of except for the modlog:

  • which can confirm/validate existing admins & moderators on federated instances
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Mastodon has rel=“me” attribute you can add to your personal site and link to from your profile