Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works
I think collect evidence and report it. Does the person in question know they are being impersonated ?
That’s the best part.
Meanwhile on grad is simply, litterly sharing/screenshoting/documenting the hate you and your community spew.
You came full circle and admitted it. Way to go.
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Delusional…
Why would you spend this much time writing up an argument defending authoritarian governments? I genuinely don’t understand why you would decide to waste your time with this. Yeah I don’t like America either but these communist countries are equally if not more evil. The USSR is dead so I don’t know why you’re debating people about their irrelevant staristics
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The fact that Western governments have done bad things in no way justifies the bad aspects of ML nations. It just makes both hypocrites.
Despite committing genocide against my ancestors etc. Western nations have done good too. Does it outweigh the bad? That’s a different discussion. Authoritarian nations capitalist or socialist are bad regardless.
Blaming “the west” for shit that happened in the past doesn’t achieve anything, even if you are right. All humans can be corrupted and all governments have corruption.
Now instead of listing random events without explaining any sort of connection to the vague “evil west”, why don’t you explain how your warmonger Russia and your genocidal Chinese governments are any better?
Clearly a propaganda account.
Are they actually claiming to be the same person? I don’t see any actual impersonation.
Thanks. I have been looking to join a community against the tankies.
You tankies talk about “misinformation”, what a joke.
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Mate you are literally a tankie lol, ty for referring me to an anti tankie sub
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Idk do you get confused when two people use the same username on different email services?
That’s not what’s happening. So it’s irrelevant.
I mean there are significant similarities. Email is often used as an existing example when talking about the Fediverse, the username@domain format is basically identical.
So why’s it irrelevant?
Is it because it doesn’t support your point? It’s because it doesn’t support your point, isn’t it? Thought so.
I had no point other than the FACT it is intentional. Targeted harrasment and mudslinging. You’re the one speculating it’s just some innocent thing and OP is over reacting. While the facts don’t support your specious claim. It’s very clear from what the OP pointed out that it isn’t what you’re pretending.
We can disagree with the ML crowd, and I do. But still be honest. But it seems most so far just want to behave like children.
I don’t see any claim that this impersonation is actually misleading anybody. OP just seems to be salty that they’re mocking their tankie behaviour and going “but but they’re impersonating someone!”.
Aaaaah I see. You’re 12.
Excellent riposte, sir. You deftly refuted all of my arguments, and didn’t at all resort to name-calling.
Actually I didn’t. You were the one that resorted to namecalling.
their tankie behaviour
That you? Yeah it was. You made zero points and instead turned to slinging pejorative names because it’s not about facts or whats correct. You want to grind an axe against a percieved enemy. And will do what ever it takes to justify your actions. If you think pointing out your juvenile behavior is calling you a name. It only goes to illustrate further how juvenile your behavior is.
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Are they actively trying to pass as that admin? Are these “problems” in any way related to impersonation?
Having the same screen name or profile picture is one thing. Having both and using them to attack or harass the person that had them first or their ideology. That’s indefensible. I would hope any decent admin would block it as soon as it was brought to their attention.
And let me be clear. I’m all for free speech. But this sort of shit has zero value. And to all the children slinging pejoratives here. Just because you disagree with someone doesn’t make that behavior acceptable. Each and every one of you would be rightfully upset in a similar situation. And that should be the situation to judge this by.
I’m gonna ignore the political stuff and actually answer your question: impersonation is a shit thing to do no matter who the target is, but there’s no centralized authority or terms of service in the fediverse. That’s kinda the whole point of it.
The above user is on mastodon, so they can verify their identity there by adding a line of code to their web site and then linking to their web site on masto. Instructions here: https://barrd.dev/article/add-a-verified-website-to-your-mastodon-account/
Once they’ve done that, they can pin a toot saying only to trust this account and no others.
If they don’t have a web site, welp. Never too late to make one.
You know that you can have multiple accounts on the fediverse?
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I don’t see the problem. I don’t have a right to my screen name. Anyone can use variations of that name to post anything they want on any platforms they want. I can’t stop them. And I should not be able to stop them.
If my precious online identity gets hit in the confusion… Well, that’s the risk I take if I have tied my online identity to nothing else but a meaningless pseudonym, easily faked, copied, and impersonated.
For me, this is just a simple demonstration that you can’t trust the name “goat”, and a picture of a goat, as a reliable identifyer. Now that I type it out, this is just stupidly obvious. Anyone who thinks that a goat picture and a nickname reliably identify someone on the internet, is just being very, very stupid in this instance.
I find it dangerous to allow someone to impersonate someone else on the fediverse (an admin too) and begin starting trouble.
I don’t find that dangerous at all. I find it very disturbing that anyone would be stupid enough to believe that the nickname “goat” and a goat picture is enough to reliably identify them as the same person.
All in all, that seems like a non problem to me. A misunderstanding among a stupid minority, easily cleared up, whenever it is desired.
