• RickRussell_CA@kbin.social
    231·
    10 months 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.

    EDIT: 2023/8/29 update – I posted to the lemm.ee support community and the admins decided to disable the account. Well done!

    • ieightpi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      10 months 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

    • waldenAEnglish
      12·
      10 months ago

      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.

    • MicroWave@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      9·
      10 months ago

      That sucks. Looks like they actually went out of their way to create that account a few days after yours.

    • Efwis@lemmy.zipEnglish
      82·
      10 months 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.eeEnglish
        23·
        10 months ago

        The key is to not attempt to foster a reputation in anonymous social media

        • Efwis@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          10 months 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

      • Izzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        71·
        10 months ago

        You are the only user with the username Efwis@lemmy.zip. Nobody else can have that username.

        • Efwis@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          10 months 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