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Sysadmin @lemmy.world izzent @lemmy.world

Someone shouldn't be able to have the @admin username

It's confusing for new users, and this instance in particular has 7k users but no interactions. It's a bot army, with the top user being called @admin.

Extremely shady and misleading.

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  • Doesn’t this depend on each instance though?

    • I think some form of blanket ban on certain keywords in usernames should be used. Admin being an obvious one, but I'm sure a lot more would also be problematic.

      • I guess what I meant is, how? It could be put into Lemmy sourcecode but since its open source that could be easily removed.

        Each instance could possibly try and autoban any other instance user with that name?

        • I'll admit I'm not tech-savvy enough to know how to implement something like that. Maybe someone else has a good idea though?

        • I think they could put it in the Lemmy source code that an instance won't display or take comments/posts from anyone with those usernames. So even if someone removed that restriction from their own instance, they wouldn't be able to post on any other instance that has that feature enabled

        • The problem is, what if an instance actually has an admin with the @admin account?

      • @Izzent @breadsmasher IRC solved this a while back with a series of Q:lines to make it more difficult to impersonate admins etc.

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