I moderate a community on this website, and a user broke the rules so I had to ban the user. I’m concerned that this user may have alternate accounts on other Lemmy websites and may evade the ban. How can I find these alternate accounts?

  • FiniteBanjo@feddit.onlineEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    There isn’t anything built in to share problematic IP addresses, but there isn’t anything stopping instance admins from sharing. I believe there was talk of a universal ban list to subscribe to, no idea if it ever got published. Though, if a user has taken the effort to maintain multiple separate accounts then they might be using VPNs as well.

    • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      An IP ban also created the risk of banning others unintentionally. ISPs which use CGNAT will have a large number of users coming from the same IP address. So, banning one IP could ban a large number of users.