It might be to avoid impersonation.

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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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      6 days ago

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