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Is impersonation a possible problem in the fediverse? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by ICastFist@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I mean, pretending to be someone in another instance, "stealing" the username, is trivial. I see the more likely targets being instance admins or high profile users. Should we worry somewhat about this?

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[–] terribleplan@lemmy.nrd.li 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, I think how most Lemmy clients (including the default web UI) handle display name is a real mistake.

[–] dQw4w9WgXcQ@vlemmy.net 1 points 1 year ago

I feel like they could solve it by adding instance only when another user with similar name is present in the comment section. It would make it clear that a duplicate username is present without changing a lot for a majority of lemmy-commenr sections.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

It currently shows: pic, username (or login name@instance), local link to the comment, federated link, language

Seems like the easiest solution would be to always show the user's instance in a separated column