It might be to avoid impersonation.

  • southsamurai
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    721 month ago

    You may not know, but kind of the core developers of lemmy uses the name dessalines.

    Since that’s the case, the name is an obvious target for trolls, spammers, etc. That’s what those accounts are/were.

    • harc
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      528 days ago

      Yeah, there was one particularly persistent troll in the early Lemmy times that registered that handle on every possible server to spam literal shit.

        • @wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works
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          -91 month ago

          See you try to just find one thing shitty people are good at, extract the most usefulness from them and when they change into their final form you ban em, dispose of em, whatever gets the most isolation for the lowest legal penalty.

          And while they sit in their corner and rage (if still alive), you make sure to take great pleasure in pointing and laughing.