It’s confusing for new users, and this instance in particular has 7k users but no interactions. It’s a bot army, with the top user being called @admin.

Extremely shady and misleading.

  • DarraignTheSane@lemmy.worldM
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    2 years ago

    FYI, I’m not going to remove this post or anything (and I agree as well), but it’s not likely to be seen by the right people here. /c/Sysadmin is just our community for discussing sysadmin things and I don’t know how much /u/Ruud or any Lemmy devs hang out here.

    You might try cross-posting it to these communities:
    [email protected]
    [email protected]
    [email protected]
    [email protected]

    Of note, lemmy.ml is the server that is operated by the primary Lemmy devs.

  • A_A@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Let’s not federate with that instance. Then, they can have any bots or username they want.

    • izzent@lemmy.worldOP
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      2 years ago

      Usually I’d agree, but there has to be something more that can be done to prevent others from putting keywords like that in their name. Otherwise it’ll just happen again…

      • A_A@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        for other instances it’s name will appear as : @admin@Podycust …so not such a big deal

    • PaintedSnail@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      For those of us who understand how the platform works, it wouldn’t be an issue. However, if we want mass adoption of the platform, we need to take into consideration those who don’t fully understand the technology and avoid situations that will lead to scams where feasible. Names of authority, like admin, root, super, etc., make a user appear to have authority they don’t, which can mislead new users. (“Support our server by sending bitcoin to this address that is really my personal wallet” type scams comes to mind.) You could say that it’s the person’s fault for falling for it, but it’s something that would drive people away from the platform which can be easily avoided in the first place.

  • emptyother@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    What if a persons real name is Admin in some weird language?

    A bit far-fetched I know. Still, I think that if theres gonna be a global hardcoded blacklist of usernames, someone should be very careful which words is added to that list. Each specific instance would know better what words is good and what is bad in their main language(s).