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?
I’ve already seen a couple cases where some user would set their display name to that of one of their instance admins, and proceed to post spam all over. It’s pretty easy to tell when someone is attempting to impersonate though, their profile URL will never match up with the name they’re trying to hijack.
In the couple times that I saw that so far, community mods and instance admins were quick to take down the account in question. Impersonation could be an issue for less-actively moderated communities & instances, but Lemmy does have the tools to deal with it.