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Is impersonation a possible problem in the fediverse?
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this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
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To me, this just seems like a variation of the age-old issue of online impersonation. In the early days of social media, there were people squatting on famous people's name/registering variations.
On my instance, admins are tagged as such which seems like a good solution. I wouldn't be surprised if we start seeing verification like on Mastodon, though I couldn't find any issues for this on their github.
It also seems very weird that you can reply to a deleted comment! (I deleted it because what I was saying was wrong in multiple ways, not just the one you pointed out)