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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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Yes, for sure. While the identity of a user can be checked, nobody is going to do this every time. IMO the simplest solution would be to just always show the instance even if a display name is set.
Yeah, I think how most Lemmy clients (including the default web UI) handle display name is a real mistake.
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 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.