Only because admins are naive enough to federate with anyone…
There’s an instance that’s literally one person and their “alters”.
To keep up appearances it has/had open registration. But if a real person accidentally signs up, they get banned for “impersonation”. But for some reason that let the person into admin only communication channels and ability to vote on things as if they were a real admin providing a real service by hosting an instance…
Except theyre the only user on their instance.
The solution is admins stop assuming everyone is sincere. Because all thpes of trolls exploit that
Only because admins are naive enough to federate with anyone…
There’s an instance that’s literally one person and their “alters”.
To keep up appearances it has/had open registration. But if a real person accidentally signs up, they get banned for “impersonation”. But for some reason that let the person into admin only communication channels and ability to vote on things as if they were a real admin providing a real service by hosting an instance…
Except theyre the only user on their instance.
The solution is admins stop assuming everyone is sincere. Because all thpes of trolls exploit that