Saw this on lemmygrad while browsing all. Before this devolves into hearsay, I'm just going to state what happened. A user decided to create a bunch of alt accounts on different instances, send death threats on public comments and harras users for a difference of opinion, including me. This went on for days, which led to a community witch-hunt which was also very unproductive. I'll just link the start of it publicly here, because it was acknowledged by an admin at the time. So I don't understand the whole "we weren't aware of this", it happened in pretty much every thread on the issue. The user would spin up their alts and do the usual harrassment tour.
https://hexbear.net/comment/5614587
https://hexbear.net/modlog?userId=2181559
https://hexbear.net/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=2183486
Just search up all the users with "debatebro" in the username field in the modlog and you can see everything.
How do you know it's not a user on their alt account? They seemed different from ordinary wreckers, posting about users pronoun tag changes, their country of birth, etc. Suggesting that they spent some time on hexbear. The truth is that we don't know if it was a wrecker or a user on their alt accounts, and I no longer feel welcome posting here given that uncertainty, the fact that it could happen again.
Given the above, goodbye and have a nice day.