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
  • @onlinepersona
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    1 month ago

    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

    • recursive_recursion [they/them]OPA
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      Currently there aren’t any that I’m aware of except for the modlog:

      • which can confirm/validate existing admins & moderators on federated instances
    • Gamma
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      11 month ago

      Mastodon has rel=“me” attribute you can add to your personal site and link to from your profile