It's confusing for new users, and this instance in particular has 7k users but no interactions. It's a bot army, with the top user being called @admin.
Extremely shady and misleading.
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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Let's not federate with that instance. Then, they can have any bots or username they want.
Usually I'd agree, but there has to be something more that can be done to prevent others from putting keywords like that in their name. Otherwise it'll just happen again...
I think admin, administrator and those type names (system administrator, sys admin etc) should be reserved but you shouldnt ban admin as being part of a name. What about sadmin / sadminute... or badmin / badminute (and every variantion of that like MadMinotaur )and other variants like that.
Or anything relating to badminton the sport
R.I.P. /m/badminton
for other instances it's name will appear as :
@admin@Podycust...so not such a big dealKbin doesn't display the instance someone is on unless you click on their username for some reason. It's not a great design choice for a federated platform.
Conversely and interestingly, it seems Lemmy doesn't show the instance of people that are on Kbin, but it also doesn't show the @ before username for them so they're still distinguishable (for example you show up as just EatALime, while the one you're repling to shows as @A_A and someone on another instance like lemm.ee would show as @@lemm.ee.)
Today I've learned (TiL) ! thanks 🙂
if original poster (OP) had posted there instead of in lemmy.world ... would have been better ... yet not a big deal 😌
I don't use kbin so I couldn't have known, sorry.
You are right, I'm getting confused
... and I need a coffee 😋 !
+1 on that coffee!