It might be to avoid impersonation.

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    14 days ago

    You may not know, but kind of the core developers of lemmy uses the name dessalines.

    Since that’s the case, the name is an obvious target for trolls, spammers, etc. That’s what those accounts are/were.

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    14 days ago

    It was impersonation until they were banned. Some spammers used these accounts to spam gore and stuff

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      Yeah, there was one particularly persistent troll in the early Lemmy times that registered that handle on every possible server to spam literal shit.