u/MrBrendon881

So I’m an active Lemmy user and for the last 3 days, this spam account called ‘Owbid Catob’ keeps joining the Lemmy.world shitposts community at a roughly specific time of day and posting creepy and borderline pedophilloic content, before engaging in vile harassment of the community who comment on his AI slop. I and presumably other users have encountered this same alias on multiple other social media platforms before and he is a presumed creep who posts bizarre artwork and borderline illegal content to the internet.

But the weird thing about this is, no matter how many times the other users ban him (both from the community and from the Lemmy platform itself through reports) within minutes of being banned, his account is straight back on shitposts, doing the same thing over and over. Surely he can’t be making new emails and registering this quickly, so how is this possible and what can be done to get the user permanently off the site?

ETA: to be clear before the hate comments start, I’m not advocating this guy, and I strongly recommend not searching for this guy or attempting to interact with him and I’m certainly not showing/posting his sickening content, I’m simply asking for advice on what to do/what can be done about a Lemmy user who can seemingly reappear like magic.

[Disclaimer: due to the behaviour of the individual discussed here, I will not be posting any screenshots/links to any accounts. I also strongly recommend not to go looking for these accounts and do not attempt to contact the ind behind these accounts]

so there’s this weird guy who calls himself ‘Owbid Catob’ which I’ll abbreviate to OC (I’ve read posts about him here before but ig they must‘ve been deleted). he stated on Pinterest posting weird and creepy images that seem borderline illegal.

Eventually, OC put on Pinterest his BlueSky account in his description and has posted on BlueSky multiple times (including some of the borderline illegal content which thankfully seems to have had no views). At first, I thought that this was either some weird pervert fetish thing (possibly a paed0phile), or possibly an internet troll, however the user then proceeded to post links on both Pinterest and BlueSky to an entire network of different social media platform accounts baring the exact same name, exact same profile pictures, and similar descriptions about their past which just sounds fake (he says he’s a tv actor who didn’t get credited or something, which is clearly bullshit). He seems to be posting AI generated content (some of which is creepy of real people) and passing them off as things like ‘deleted scene from coronation street’ and even made pics of Princes George and Louis in ballerina dresses. Other images are just outright weird featuring people’s heads cooking in pots of soup. Some of these other accounts also link to even more accounts. in fact, by tracing the network through the links and by googling the name ‘Owbid Catob’, I’ve found his accounts on at least the following platforms:

—Pinterest

—Bluesky

—Medium

—Mumsnet

—Flickr

—Tumblr

—Lemmy

—YouTube

—Instagram

and these are only the ones he’s made visible. However, he seems to be using BlueSky as his main ‘hub’ to link these other accounts by posting links to them.

What the hell is this??? Is this common on BlueSky or is something else going on here?