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 Cast FistOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      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

      • terribleplan@lemmy.nrd.liEnglish
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        1 year ago

        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.

    • dQw4w9WgXcQ@vlemmy.netEnglish
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      1 year ago

      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.