Because trolls, spammers, and other bad actors will make accounts in mass and use them asap before they get banned.
this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2025
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FYI it's en masse. It's French
Unless theyre doing in while in church.
Everyday there's like 5-10 brand new accounts who quickly spam ~20 articles each and stop the same day.
It looks like someone hoping Lemmy takes off so they can sell aged accounts later.
See for example, @nehare@lemmy.world. Account is four hours old, 52 articles posted, zero comments/engagement with the community. Will probably be gone by tomorrow.
Just the other day a bot showed up (galacticWaffle) that was making long, engaging comments on pretty much every post on .World. No one would have known it was a bot if it hadn’t been posting an impossible number of comments per minute. A lot of us engaged with it until people started following it around calling it out. Felt bad man.
I think people just need to know that you are a person before they trust you as a new neighbor. The norm lately is for brand new accounts not to be.
Because ban evasion is an everyday occurrence here. Someone gets banned for being a jackass, and 9 times out of 10, they come right back with a brand new account and come in hot with inflammatory posts and a chip on their shoulder.
Or trolls just troll - spin up new accounts over and over and throw out rage bait or whatever their shtick is just to be a dick.
Combined with the fact that the fediverse's growth has been a bit stagnant lately, when a bunch of new accounts suddenly pop up, they're rightly met with suspicion until they've established themselves as being here with good intentions.
Not saying new accounts should be ostracized, but given the context of the current state of the fediverse, being suspicious of them is warranted.
It’s just a quick and dirty rule of thumb that works surprisingly often. If you meet a jedi from Tatooine, it’s a pretty safe to guess that they’re fed up with sand. Same sort of safe guess works with new accounts too.
Can’t speak for others but I take few day-old accounts and their opinions with a grain of salt. Often it happens that it is just a troll to bait other people.
Me too. It didn’t used to be like that, but it is like that now. I used to be excited to see new accounts and it was great like that for a while. Now I’m skeptical and always check their history before interacting with new accounts.
OP's account is 1 day old. Bot detected, mods were need a ban! /s
Welcome to the Lemmy!
You misspelled 'we' and therefore you're A.I. You must be banned too. /s
Voyager app shows age of accounts if new, in bright yellow. So when I notice someone new interacting like an articulate human being, I am extra nice to them, and if not, I vigorously ignore it and move on.
how do you vigorously ignore someone?
Read their comment twice and double ignore them xD
I break the fourth wall with my imaginary audience with a really hard Paddington Bear stare, then swipe away, but you do what works for you.
Ignoring the gatekeepers and the people watching for trolls, there's one other aspect: a lot of people are posting their account anniversaries not to brag, but to celebrate - celebrate leaving the toxic world behind.
I tend to abandon all my online accounts from time to time and make new ones for privacy reasons, and IMO everyone should do the same, together with using different names for every website.
Unfortunately the trend is for people using the same accounts that they made when they were 12 for the rest of their lives.
If people were more conscious about their privacy and pseudo-anonymity then I think there would be less bias against new accounts.
I haven't seen this on lemmy, but on reddit there are whole communities that you can't post if you don't have an old account.