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?
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?
Yeah, I think how most Lemmy clients (including the default web UI) handle display name is a real mistake.
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.
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
I think showing something like
DisplayName (@username@instance)if they have a display name would make sense… honestly I would like to disable showing display name entirely (didn’t need it on that other site, never found it useful on twitter/mastodon/etc), but understand that would may be a less popular option.