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You probably never heard of it because it didn’t happen. It was a joke on social media that snowballed, as memes tend to do.

Bots and trolls are a very different thing than a human having multiple accounts.

Even if creating an account was limited to a single individual human, they could still run it with a bot full time or partially. Or they could get the identities of people not on the fediverse to set up bot accounts. Trolling rarely includes creating multiple accounts, and they would have the same options to create accounts for people not on the fediverse.

This approach won’t results in platform where you aren’t being manipulated by bots and trolls, but would make things worse for everyone else.

Centralizing authentication means someone gets to control access to the whole fediverse, which would be pretty fucking awful if anyone like .ml team was running authentication and had the power to easily deny anyone whose opinions they didn’t like.

Imo it would be awesome if every person could have only one single account. Bans and restrictions have much more impact which forces users to behave more like irl.

No it wouldn’t be awesome, it would be fucking awful. Admins and mods don’t need more impact than they already have which is just cleaning up their own instances and communities without having any impact on someone doing things elsewhere. That is the whole point of federation and not replicating the centralized one account per person approach that reddit and similar corporate implementations have.

So far I have hopped because the instance shut down (kbin) and for a better user experience from lemmy to piefed.

If I had accidentally joined a tankie instance I would probably hop off once I found out.

That is the character limit on the database field where they store your password in plain text.

A chicken egg came before the chicken because it is the same animal and the egg stage is earlier than the adult stage.