Is that what this was ? (See screen shot below) If so, I’ll give you my two cents. Firstly, I banned that account that posted that, and removed the post. Why? Bc i had no idea wtf that was.
I just saw my username tagged with a bunch of usernames and then I look at the username of the person posting it, and it just says test URL HD? Um…
My first thought was is this a doxing post? I had no idea what the hell that was. It took me about 20 minutes and talking to another user to realize that it was just a notification alerting subscribers that the community was moving.
But that’s not all, now I have questions. I was looking it up online, and the information I got back is that the only way to see subscribers to Lemmy communities is to go deep into the database to get that information. And that kind of pissed me off and bothered me because it’s like what are you trying to do here get my name email and address to like stock me or something? Please don’t take that personally I understand you’re having an issue with this and you’re just trying to do something helpful. So I understand I’m not mad at you or anything cuz I know what it is now.
But I’m not a developer or a programmer, so when I see stuff like that my first instinct is okay somebody’s trying to get cute here in dox people or they’re up to something nefarious. Because lemmy is super technical, and a lot of really techy people use it. And they know how to make Bots and all kinds of stuff. So I didn’t know what the hell was going on.
Lastly, if you want my advice. I remember when people would move their Lemmy communities all they would do is just make a post about it and then pin it to the community notifying users that they’re moving to another instance. And that in in and of itself was helpful enough. Honestly I feel like that’s all that’s really necessary.
Anyway, you’re fine I’m not mad at you I hope you have a good evening and try not to think about this so much
Poop will prevail