• joneskind@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    When you use “connect with Apple” it creates an account with a name constructed this way.

    You can change it afterwards but no one does.

    EDIT: Wait, is it the default Reddit way?

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      6 months ago

      Yeah I think any account you create now has that as the default. Or at least did a few years ago.

      So it’s really more of a “many new accounts are bots” rather than “you can distinguish bots by this account name format”.