Thanks for this post. you expressed it more eloquently than I could.
I used to be on discord and left because of spoofing.
To someone who said above about making sure of my friends and so on, yes I do.
I have deleted people for spoofing - even though one had promised me a relicanth but he hadn't been on holiday, he had spoofed.
i was hospitalised during the first valentine's event in 2017, i missed out on streaks
I had covid, i missed out on streaks
I missed out on many community days because of taking kids to parties
I am level 50 but it's all legit. I joined servers in New Zealand and in Pittsburgh and got invited to regionals through them.
Everything comes around... you risk your account spoofing to NZ for a chatot - i got mine during Go Fest legitimately.
I should just leave this post but there is SO MUCH more to pokemon than Go.
If i cant get out, I get my fix on the switch or pokemon unite. pokemon go is for 'going' and for the communities