Hey all! I currently moderate a small roleplay community on Reddit where we play mostly lighthearted scenarios about typical village life with our characters. Recently, Reddit pretty much killed our sub by banning a significant part of our most active users (probably because they believe they’re spam bots, but they are refusing to even answer us about what happened), so we’re looking at possibly switching platforms… The thing is: it’s pretty common for users to have multiple accounts, each representing a character played, which are sometimes active in the same post. They stay in our own community, though. Typically, users have 3-5 characters, although we have one extreme case where a user is building their story with ~50 characters (Yeah, I can see why Reddit would flag that, but interestingly that user is unaffected).
We played around with Lemmy a little and the platform would be suitable for us. But to avoid such a thing happening again, I wanted to ask here before we switch over, since we’re not exactly acting like “normal” users. Is this behavior okay for the instance admins, and are there any automated systems we have to be aware of?
Thanks for your time!
Bear in mind you have made this post on just one instance, Lemmy.world, if they aren’t keen on you doing this for whatever reason there are many more instances around that could be more accommodating.
If you have people that are technically literate you could even spin up your own instance just for your community to register their accounts to. They would still be able to interact with the wider fediverse in the same manner if they wanted to post outside of your roleplays too!
We’re considering setting up our own instance as well, but that’s a bit above my IT skill level. Thanks for the suggestion!
In my experience, Lemmy.world would probably be fine with this. They can sometimes be intransigent about certain things, but probably not this. That said, if it were me, I would choose a more open and acceptable instance with less authoritarian mods, for lack of a better term.
It should be fine as long as you don’t vote with several accounts for the same person
Feel free to also consider Piefed
as @Blaze@lemmy.zip mentioned, we don’t care about usage of multiple accounts generally.
we do prohibit the same person voting on content (their own or others’) with multiple accounts, and obviously using multiple accounts for ban evasion is not allowed. spamming a community with multiple accounts pretending to be different persons should also be avoided unless the community explicitly allows it, which seems to how you want to do it based on your description.
Perfect, thanks! Yes, of course ban evasion and upvoting yourself would be against what we want as well. But if the “pretending to be multiple people” thing is under our control as community moderators, that’s exactly what we’re looking for. Pretending to be someone else is a core part of our roleplay group ;)
