@feditips ... which other sites can block, meaning you'll have an ugly shortcode in your username when folks on those sites see it:

@feditips If it's hello.coop/verified.coop/press.coop, that's a fake.

@feditips In a related phenomenon, if you're browsing an account and you can't believe its instance hasn't suspended it, maybe it has!

Cached copies work the other way too: you might be seeing the ghost of an account that was suspended. Check the original page before making a duplicate report (do still make a local-only report - your admin can locally-suspend it to prevent the copy from appearing while waiting for the originating server's suspension to federate out).

@feditips *checks database* 22,570 other servers.