I started a masters program and I was assigned an an office computer with MintOS that contained all the software and data for my research project. Unfortunately, my advisor couldn’t remember the password so my first task was breaking into the computer. You’d think being able to externally reset the root password would turn me away from Linux, but the ease and functionality of the terminal shell really made sense to me. Plus now I know how to better secure my Linux systems.

I’m relatively new to the Lemmyverse, so I don’t if there are rules or conventions in this decentralized model of communities. But Lemmy is still the internet, you are going to find people (or bots) farming internet points through plagiarism. I think you best bet is reaching out to that user to work something out or just linking your original posted in their cloned posts.