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by whitakerch
784 days ago
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I'm confused as to how we can tell. Where do you see "the profile was created 2024-04-26"?
Is the instagram linked on the profile also faked or is that the real guy? How do we know it was deleted back in 2022? Because there's a single web archive snapshot where the page shows as "Not Found" in that year? That could happen for other reasons. The guy could also be re-instating his own substack. I'm not doubting this but want to know how to detect it. If the instagram is the real guy someone should tell him lol. |
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The Instagram link is not the real author, it's just some random person with the same name.
I'd rather not share more about this person's pattern, but I've sent it to Dan and Substack. If you look closely at the links I pasted in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40164077 (and profiles), you'll spot most of it. I'm sure they'll get better next time, though.
This is all but impossible to detect unless there's some pattern/tell. That's why I say to be somewhat skeptical of Substack URLs for now, unless you know the person giving it to you (or are otherwise sure the blog wasn't deleted). The real solution is for Substack to not allow people to re-publish on URLs already used by other accounts, so you and I don't need to try to figure this out on a case-by-case basis - in general, that's not possible.