The reason I need disposable account just for convenience.
- Because all online account, I use random-generate password with password manager.
- I rent computer (pc-bang, internet cafe) to have game night with friends 2-3 times a week
- I don’t feel like login my password manger on stranger PC
So, I just create new lemmy account to intereact with people.
And the way I create it:
- Pick a random name using fantasy random name generator
- Reuse the password only for temp account. Seriously, If you know that password, you can hack all my temp account
The instance:
- I just browse the instance list, pick those with ~1000 user
- the one with no application process, the one which I can get a new account ready to go now.
- Use temp email, 10 minutes email if required. Leave email blank optional.
I think my privacy is fully protect. And I help less well know instance have out-going interactive like vote and comment.
So…
You’re always using the same password for all your spam accounts…
But you won’t just use one because you don’t want to remember the password?
The ones thats the same for all of them?
And somehow all this seems not only like a good idea to you? But you think it’s a good enough idea to brag to people about?
I hope you’re trolling, because if this is serious and you’re not a child, life is gonna be hard.
Congratulations. Poor people who try to engage with you, because you’re never going to read a reply and it’s all wasted effort.
That’s…literally the same process trolls use.
The difference is that the content and interactive.
Troll create a lot of account to break thing.
Legit people participate to contribute
I disagree you’re helping smaller instances in any way and posit that you’re making the fediverse worse with that practice.
You’re creating and abandoning accounts on the regular. Those accounts federate out to every instance the home one is linked to and exist in perpetuity. We’re talking several thousand instances or more. All filling up with abandoned accounts from the same person.
This post isn’t the flex you think it is.
lemmy has to be able to grow, so its better to run into account build up early rather than later.
But they’re not real accounts; just abandoned burner accounts. I would hardly call that growth.
Perhaps this is a cancer, and it will help lemmy immune system grow to fight back.
I mean, you’re right, it kind of is provoking an “immune” response 🤷🏻♂️. Several UIs already add badges to new accounts since trolls spinning up new accounts to ban-evade is an ongoing problem.
I maintain a Lemmy UI, and I’m now adding a feature to let people hide new accounts; they can specify a minimum age and only accounts older than that will be shown in communities they’re not a moderator of.
This is silly, imo. If you don’t want to be at all identifiable, use something like 4chan. However, there is a reason places that allow that level of anonymity are cancerous.
So, if you’ve been doing this for a year, and subscribing to the same communities with ~1000 users, 180 of those users are you?
It’s good for your privacy, unless that master password is found, maybe. Aren’t you wasting space across all the instances having to track your accounts, though?
