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Edited the image to stop putting the person on blast.
this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2024
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This is related another issue too, does lemmy do anything to deal with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack?
How is that applicable?
Not the original commenter, but it seems they're asking if lemmy is doing anything about imposters. These are all different characters: "Greek ฮ (039F), Latin O (004F), and Cyrillic ะ (041E)" so someone could look like they have an official username, when really it's a different unicode character. Nothing to do with the actual IDN part, but moreso about the "homograph" part, or even more accurately, homoglyph
I guess if someone were dumb enough to give money to a person on Lemmy just because they claimed to be Mr Beast or something. Otherwise I don't really see the "attack" part.
The problem (or not, depends on you) with Lemmy is that usernames aren't that unique when anyone can just setup a new instance or join a smaller one and register that username.
Most probably don't look at the instance what is looking at usernames.
Personally I couldn't care less to follow anyone on here. Who is who really doesn't matter. But maybe it does for someone.