Hey folks. A question for you.

I’m RickRussell_CA on lemmy.world, kbin.social, lemmy.ml, and beehaw.org.

When I saw that lemm.ee was coming up in the rankings, I decided that perhaps I should stake my claim here. But, as you may guess, there is already a RickRussell_CA on lemm.ee.

It’s even using the profile picture that I had originally used on lemmy.world. It’s made 1 comment (on a since deleted post) and no submissions.

I’ve used the “Forgot password” link and it’s definitely not my account, as it doesn’t recognize my email.

I understand that this is a risk under the Fediverse model, but I’m a bit worried that somebody staked this out as a way of impersonating me.

Is there any way to address this?

EDIT: lemm.ee admins saw this post, and banned the account. Thanks to them!

  • RickRussell_CAOPEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    Yes, I’m aware. Although it’s not “near name” in this case, it’s the same username. Which I understand to be a risk of the federated model, I just thought I’d ask to see if there was any recourse.

    One hopes that instance & community admins and others will look closely at the fully qualified username before pulling the trigger on bans, and that sort of thing.