It might be worth letting them know.

I am extremely convinced that bad actors have become pretty good at taking over subreddits, and I know there are companies that will sell services where they will do this sort of stuff (“reputation management”) if you want the internet as a whole to have a better impression of your company, or overall control the narrative. I don’t really know anything at all about carrotcypher specifically, but it sounds a lot like this person might be doing something at least similar to that. So assembling something that’s well-documented and organized enough that it’s hard to dismiss and then sharing it with any people who are giving carrotcypher a position of authority, sounds like a really good idea. I can help with it in any way if you want me to (although like I say I have no idea about this person specifically beyond suspicious things like this that people have brought up).

The fediverse is very vulnerable to this kind of stuff I think, just like Reddit is, because there’s always such a shortage of people who are really willing to put in the time and effort it takes to do behind-the-scenes work like moderation. I think we should definitely be vigilant about calling it out if it seems like someone is doing stuff that’s sketchy.

Keep it coming, I’m glad to get this kind of info both about Dolan and meritless censorship on Reddit.

I meant they can’t differentiate between them because there’s too many reports to go through probably. Reddit relies on volunteers because it can’t afford to employ enough people to moderate it for real.