• DerisionConsulting@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        The only thing that we can confirm, is that you are the account you are currently posting on.

        It is very easy to impersonate someone in the Fediverse.

        • Blaze (he/him)English
          2·
          2 months ago

          Taking one alt example to reply.

          You are correct, but interestingly enough I noted that most of the instance admins would reach out to me when I create my alt to check if I am actually me.

          So it is indeed possible, but there are some light checks.

          Also with the amount of posts and comments I made on the feddit.org alt, I would have noticed it early.

          I just added a note about the feddit.org alt in my bio to make this more clear.

      • blindbunny@lemmy.mlEnglish
        612·
        2 months ago

        Bro the fediverse isn’t Pokemon you don’t have to catch your username on every instance

        • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgOPEnglish
          22·
          2 months ago

          Unfortunately, with federated moderation being broken and forcing people to have a local account to mod communities, you can end up with a bunch of alts.

          Also I use them for different topics as we don’t have multi communities.

          I actually created this one to follow the “meta” stuff happening everywhere

        • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
          101·
          2 months ago

          It is worth making accounts on a few instances for things like cross instance moderation, testing, or seeing content that isn’t federated out