That’s why we disabled the buy-sell-trade community on our niche instance. Nobody got scammed during the short time it was open, but if a username can be duplicated it makes scamming that much easier.
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RickRussell_CA@kbin.social 1 year ago
Oh goody. There's a RickRussell_CA@lemm.ee and it's not me. And it's using one of my older profile pictures.
walden@sub.wetshaving.social 1 year ago
ieightpi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Uhhhhh. Yeah this was always something I was worried about with multiple instances. Having multiple usernames run my different people. The @ at the end will be crucial for people keep them separate
Efwis@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
The only bad part about the fediverse, imho, it’s hard to be the only one with your username. What makes it bad is a malicious user, that you may have pissed off somehow, start using your username in a smear campaign to hurt your reputation.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The key is to not attempt to foster a reputation in anonymous social media
Efwis@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
True. I try to stay anonymous. But that doesn’t work on all social medias. Take Facebook for example, they show all that info in your profile allowing haters to hate
GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Facebook is not anonymous social media. It’s spyware to the max
Izzy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You are the only user with the username
Efwis@lemmy.zip. Nobody else can have that username.Efwis@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
This is true, just like I have an ml account too. But I wouldn’t put past someone to create another account on another instance with efwis and start some shit because I hurt their feelings. So far that hasn’t been an issue but there is a first time. Especially since the username doesn’t show what instance your’re on on the feeds
MicroWave@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That sucks. Looks like they actually went out of their way to create that account a few days after yours.