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Tagging users with multiple accounts (piefed.social)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by sirxdaemon@piefed.social to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

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On the Connect app, there's an option that users can enable to make user notes global. This applies a user tag to all accounts with the same username across instances. Any accounts that get a copy of the tag has an added * to denote that it wasn't originally tagged; as a reminder since some people may simply have the same username on different instances.

I prefer to tag accounts over blocking because I think it's beneficial to upvote pushback or correction replies, which you wouldn't see by blocking. But some people have way too many alts and it's rather tedious to tag each one. Granted, I also have many accounts, but that's mainly for testing purposes.

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[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This seems like a potential minefield if implemented naively.

e.g. someone could make an account with your username, implement a troll campaign, then walk into someplace like !chapotraphouse@hexbear.net and cause not only themselves but YOU also to receive hundreds of DMs over the course of WEEKS and WEEKS, with little to no recourse to stop it.

But... admittedly the likelihood of that seems extremely low (for a normal person), so if it would be too much work to try to prevent, then even in that case perhaps that possibility should not stop the rest of us from having features useful to those capable of existing in a more polite society?

[–] sirxdaemon@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

The setting is not enabled by default. Also, the * hopefully reminds people that they didn't tag that specific account and that the same username on a different instance may represent two different people.