it reflects extremely poorly on lemmy/threadiverse in general that this type of behaviour is tolerated at all let alone encouraged
this post was submitted on 16 Nov 2025
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The community isn't configured to screen it out, pretty much by design.
There's not a great technical solution for screening out this kind of malicious conduct
by design
fair point but it's not mainly a software problem. there's no reason that e.g. an article on vpn use in response to the UK online safety act shouldn't be posted/reposted to technology@instance.uk, privacy@instance.ml, worldnews@instance.elsewhere etc
what is disappointing about this cm0002 stuff is what i've seen of the general community response to the high effort attempt to flood the timeline with low effort posts. the supportive comments and upvotes suggest that people like it, and that is baffling to me
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I wasn't aware Piefed had this feature. Good to know.
The way I see it, it can be made part of other features. Have names be auto-reserved locally between instances for future user migrations if they desire. Having the same username for different instances for different people is deceptive as fuck and will be abused as well if it hasn't been yet.
That a user acting in bad faith retains the same name throughout different instances is merely coincidental - I doubt they won't mind switching it up, specially if they are automating account creation and astrosurfing.