So yeah… maybe the turtle slowly waking up that he was just a Laptog for reddit and thrown away as soon as they didnt need him anymore ( moderation is allways a volunteer thing and shouldnt be like a 2nd job ).

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    You could do it per email address, at least on platforms where your account is tied to one. Doesn’t stop it, but if you’re only allowed to mod 5 communities, you’d need a lot of sock puppet emails to mod 1000+.

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      If you own a domain, it’s trivial to set up a catch-all redirect to your real email address. I, for example, have this account linked to [email protected]. With the maximum length of an email address being 254 characters and the “lemmy_world_” and “@example.com” parts taking up 24 characters, I could create up to 350! - 1 (yes, that’s a factorial) more usernames, each linked to a corresponding unique address. (Well, give or take any limits Lemmy imposes on username length, anyway.)

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          They can’t do that because they can’t necessarily tell the difference between the personal domain of one person and one providing email addresses to multiple people.

          • Its easier than you think. Email is pretty consolidated around a few big players these days which means about 10 minutes of work querying the database for how many accounts will be impacted and a quick Google to find out what the domain is used for is all you need to decide whether to ban it or not.

            We used to do this on IRC quite often before we could even just Google it.