I just created my account on lemmy.world today to match the username I have on lemmy.ml.

When I logged in just now, the screen refreshed with a different users name and icon for less than 1 second and then updated to mine.

I thought that was really strange behavior. Has anyone else experienced this? Any idea how/why this could have happened?

  • ActuallyRubenEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    Sounds to me like the server had their caching misconfigured, resulting in a personalised page being put in a public cache. Normally only static resources such as images and static webpages would be put in a public cache.

    Currently I don’t think there’s any private information that could be leaked this way in lemmy, but it might be wise to notify the instance admins about this.

    • @KelsonVEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      I wonder if it’s the same problem I was having yesterday when I opened a bunch of communities in tabs and subscribed to them, and some of the tabs showed the wrong info in the box. (probably also caching)