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

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

29 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] sideone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Instance is shown if it's different to the one you're on. I can see your instance is vlemmy.net

[-] nan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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.

[-] saba 1 points 1 year ago

that's true, but currently people can set their display name to anything, for example, i could set my display name to @sideone@lemmy.world

we could all set that as our display name.

[-] sideone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Ah, ok

this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023

25 points (96.3% liked)

Asklemmy

43980 readers

1146 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS