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
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
The approach I’ve seen here on Lemmy is to bidirectionally reference alts in each profile
Currently there aren’t any that I’m aware of except for the modlog:
Mastodon has
rel=“me”attribute you can add to your personal site and link to from your profile