• @Rhoeri
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    121 day ago

    And when those alts call themselves “drag” what do you think will happen?

    • @[email protected]
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      121 day ago

      They usually don’t. Like with Newbuild, they change who they refer to themselves in 3rd person. But an account saying they are friends with Drag, speaking exactly like Drag, but referring to themselves as, in this case, Bot… Almost zero effort to conceal the alt as an alt.

    • @[email protected]
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      81 day ago

      Mods will ban them, they will make a new account and carry on.

      Bans only work for normal people.

      • Draconic NEO
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        822 hours ago

        Correction bans only work for people who respect the paradigm of “not being allowed to sign up again when banned” and “not being allowed to lie on registration application” if it’s present on the server.

        Normal people don’t get permabanned from servers left, right, and center.

          • Draconic NEO
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            219 hours ago

            If you could force users to use an app like Reddit does you could get device data. Though short of that not really. Browser fingerprinting and tracking cookie placement (What Reddit uses in their web session) is described that way by lay people (and people trying to fear monger or dissuade ban evasion) but Browsers like Tor or Mullvad defeat that very easily by not saving the data and randomizing the fingerprinting data.

            Most Lemmy users wouldn’t use a locked down black box app similar to the Reddit app though. It would be a red flag for many of them. An instance which requires that would not be popular.

      • @Rhoeri
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        118 hours ago

        I guarantee he’s very attached to the drama he has caused using the “drag” account. Staring all over with another one will be a pain in the ass.

    • @[email protected]
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      1 day ago

      You’d have to distinguish drag from others using drag neopronouns for fun and or profit. Drag thinks this would be fun for a while, if only to prove drags point dragself.

      Did they ever use dragself? I bet they did. We’ll never know now.

      • @[email protected]
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        101 day ago

        Pretty sure they did use “dragself” a few times. Can’t bother to dig up the comments

      • @Rhoeri
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        61 day ago

        This makes my head hurt.