I think this might currently be a bug in PieFed. Some other PieFed admins have been reporting issues with the active user counts being off as well. I'm not sure if PieFed uses the same logic to count active users as Lemmy, but that could be another source of difference. Looking through the last couple posts they seem to all have federated along with all their comments and at least most of the votes (1 or 2 votes were missing but that can happen sometimes).
I've transferred the community to you. I've also added your LW alt as community mod, as some mod actions (at least adding new mods) still has some issues when done from a different instance, and you won't be able to receive and resolve all reports from another instances.
At least one of the moderators is still active, I've just sent them a message to confirm whether they're still interested in moderating this community.
unfortunately, the tooling natively available in lemmy is rather limited, and identifying these accounts automatically without having a decent chance of false positives is challenging. there are already some measures we've implemented, but the stricter we become the more we risk affecting legitimate users with this.
I changed the password after leaking that screenshot
presumably in the time between leaking and changing it? once the password is changed the old password won't work anymore, and neither will any of the previous login tokens.
Lemmy has a feature for taglines where you'll see a random one on every refresh. We used to have a selection of a few communities in there, but at this time we don't have anyone available who has spare time to maintain this. We're open to suggestions or even someone joining e.g. our matrix and we'll be happy to set up a group chat for collecting communities and adding/rotating them in our list.
This is instance specific, so each instance has to maintain this on their end.
we can mark your community as locally hidden, which will prevent non-subscribed users from seeing it. This is however only a local thing and will not affect users on other instances. It will therefore also prevent discovery, as it's not only removing posts from a feed, but also removing the entire community from being seen anywhere unless accessed directly.
This doesn't really solve the problem. This person used to scramble/delete their own content in the past before they went to delete the entire accounts.
They're a rather persistent ban evader who can't accept not being welcome in some spaces on the internet. Even before they started deleting accounts they already used multiple accounts to evade bans.
I'd be happy to hear suggestions for addressing this without essentially banning all new accounts. Preventing new accounts from participating will only result in them aging accounts for a bit before usage and discouraging legitimate new users from participating.
this community is primarily intended for support topics related to this instance, not about general Lemmy topics.
I'd recommend a more general Lemmy/Lemmy moderation community instead, such as one of these (some of them seem to be dead, but a crosspost probably wouldn't be an issue):
we're currently investigating a bit of DB slowness there. I hope we'll have that fixed soon.
this may be a result of changes in piefed since we updated to 1.6 a few days ago where we may need to adjust some tuning.