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LA Times reports that Palm Springs bomber had an account on Lemmy.world (www.latimes.com)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Imagine my surprise reading this on the LA Times this morning (emphasis mine):

“I would not acknowledge reproduction as a human right, but instead as a form of rape,” IndictEvolution wrote on Lemmy.World in July 2023. “I am also not bothered by infanticide as long as it is done humanely...”

Here is an archive of the article.

Here is his account.

It looks like he only stayed on Lemmy for about a month, most likely a temporary Reddit exile with the earliest exodus on June 2023. The article mentions threads on Reddit but doesn't provide any quotes from there. User IndictEvolution on Reddit deleted their account, and the article makes it sound like they are referring to a different username that they don't specify.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Hmmm, how did they find out?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

You mean the reporters? I wondered about that, but then realized that the guy tended to use the same online nickname on various sites. Searching the web for that nickname probably turned up a bunch of his accounts and then they could read the comments to determine if they were likely the same person. Pretty good reporting, I thought.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Ah, good reason to always make new usernames for each site/service that is signed up for. 😉

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, definitely a good privacy and security practice. Different passwords is important too. Different email addresses as well, if possible. There are services like simplelogin and anonaddy that make the email part simple.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 56 minutes ago

Yes, the email I use has that built in, though if I can I don't use email for an account, like on Lemmy (which is how it should be everywhere in my opinion, just a username and password). All my passwords are different too!