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Snowe Impersonators, and Future Verfication Suggestion (programming.dev)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by recursive_recursion@programming.dev to c/meta@programming.dev
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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@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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

[–] lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago

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

[–] recursive_recursion@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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
[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 1 points 5 months ago

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