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OpenStars@piefed.social 3 weeks agoGeorge Takei, Mark Hamill, …
If someone were to create a Markhamil@lemmy.world account, someone else can simply spin up a Markhamil@lemmings.world, and a Markhamil@Markhamillemmy.world, and so on. Nobody is ever going to believe that any of those are actually Mark Hamill (especially since none are:-).
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Doesn’t Lemmy have any sort of profile cross-identification like Mastodon has?
OpenStars@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Absolutely none. Some users do things like list their own alts, though these can fall out of date, and are entirely optional.
Lemmy (and PieFed) allows you to migrate your blocklists and community subscriptions, and PieFed will even pull in all old posts from a community to help migrate it over, though there is still a disconnection point between the new PieFed account for people vs. their old Lemmy account, which are separated.
Some people, like Blaze, create alts all across the Threadiverse for unrelated reasons - primarily since Lemmy reports do not actually federate (though PieFed ones do, see report) - while other people specifically grab other people’s account names just to troll them (or at least some of those alts claim that much:-P), leading to all manner of confusion as to who is then trolling who.
Blaze@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
I was mostly using alts to federate communities before Lemmy-federate got created.
Nowadays thanks to Piefed personal feeds I mostly only use this one’
OpenStars@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
But then how do you mod communities, specifically Lemmy ones, when those reports do not federate (though PieFed ones reportedly do)?