Sysadmin

FYI, I'm not going to remove this post or anything (and I agree as well), but it's not likely to be seen by the right people here. /c/Sysadmin is just our community for discussing sysadmin things and I don't know how much /u/Ruud or any Lemmy devs hang out here.

You might try cross-posting it to these communities:
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Of note, lemmy.ml is the server that is operated by the primary Lemmy devs.

There's a ticket to fix this on kbin which would allow each instance admin to block regular users from registering common names of authority: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/359

just wow. Should be reported in github to main lemmy repo

Doesn’t this depend on each instance though?

Let's not federate with that instance. Then, they can have any bots or username they want.

I think just banning them is enough. On other instances it will indicate they are on another instance.

What if a persons real name is Admin in some weird language?

A bit far-fetched I know. Still, I think that if theres gonna be a global hardcoded blacklist of usernames, someone should be very careful which words is added to that list. Each specific instance would know better what words is good and what is bad in their main language(s).

Official instance admin and community mod roles are denoted with badges, though. That's consistent across every instance already.

I could change my name to admin or use my local instance @admin account and post here, but neither would give me any superpowers. Looking at my remote @admin user from a federated instance wouldn't badge me as an admin for that instance either.

I don't see the problem or see how that affects anyone. There can be an @john on every instance. Is that confusing for users, too? Should every instance coordinate and make sure there's only one @john to rule them all? Who is the best John, and how is that determined?

That's just how the fediverse works.

Ironically the link in OP is to the actual admin of this site

Eh, why not? It's just a name.