"Hi my names Garfield lasagna, as a gay black man like myself how do feel about us using all the welfare and stealing your taxes? What are your thoughts, brother cousin?"

So transparent.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That’s bad faith alt accounts.

A lot of us have alt accounts for privacy reasons, not to create bad faith alter egos.

[–] m_f@discuss.online 23 points 3 days ago

Needs an additional panel of "When you realize it was your lemmynsfw.com alt"

[–] JohnSmith@feddit.uk 9 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Why would people even use alt accounts?

[–] lola@hubzilla.monster 5 points 2 days ago

A legitimate reason might be that you want to talk about things that your employers might not approve of, like your sexuality or your politics. We don't want to get fired because we are are LGBTQIA+ or oppose tyranny.

[–] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

backup in case your primary instance is down
admin/mod account to separate mod work from normal activity
bot accounts
test accounts
and more...

[–] JohnSmith@sopuli.xyz 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I know, it’s really silly. Finally somebody talking sense here!

[–] JohnSmith@feddit.uk 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It would appear you were all wooshed.

[–] JohnSmith@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago

I agree, they were indeed wooshed.

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago

Currently, reports only go to Mods on the community's instance, so you need a Mod for that.

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 12 points 3 days ago

I reply from my alt sometimes, mostly when my main instance is slow. It's the same username username and display name on both servers, though.