Snowe Impersonators, and Future Verfication Suggestion

2 years ago by recursive_recursion [they/them] to c/meta

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

onlinepersona 3 points 2 years ago

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.

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lemann 3 points 2 years ago

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

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recursive_recursion 1 point 2 years ago

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