It might be to avoid impersonation.

  • southsamurai
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    3 days 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.