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@dgar
The word, "ew" is in their weird & F-ed up handle but their lack of understanding of Mastodon / the Fediverse is scary.
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@nlupo they may have had one - not sure - screenshot taken from a ghost of the post after the account was removed.
@dgar I wish mastodon.social would close registrations.