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?

  • skomposzczet@vlemmy.net
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    1 year ago

    His concern is probably that in comments etc. only username is displayed. You have to go to person’s profile to discover their instance.

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        1 year ago

        Not if they set a display name. Many of the mobile apps are also bad about it even without a display name.

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      That’s just a Lemmy client configuration matter, not an issue with Lemmy or fediverse itself.