• RickRussell_CA@kbin.social
    21·
    1 year 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!

    • walden@sub.wetshaving.socialEnglish
      2·
      1 year 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.

    • Efwis@lemmy.zipEnglish
      0·
      1 year 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
        0·
        1 year ago

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

        • Efwis@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          1 year 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