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Someone shouldn't be able to have the @admin username (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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:
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Of note, lemmy.ml is the server that is operated by the primary Lemmy devs.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think admin, administrator and those type names (system administrator, sys admin etc) should be reserved but you shouldnt ban admin as being part of a name. What about sadmin / sadminute... or badmin / badminute (and every variantion of that like MadMinotaur )and other variants like that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Eh, why not? It's just a name.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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.