I was recently approached by a user claiming to be the developer of Sync for Lemmy who wanted to be a moderator of the community I created, !syncforlemmy.

I was able to verify this user was indeed LJ Dawson as I knew where to contact him on Discord.

It is quite possible that an impostor user on another instance may be created, for example [email protected] could easily be made.

Should Lemmy have a verified user marker for members who are of importance to any given community? Are there any other options to protect users against nefarious persons playing impostor?

  • Izzy
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    11 year ago

    At least in every UI implementation I’ve seen so far that would show up as [email protected]. Only usernames that are on the same instance omit the @instance part of the username. Not adding that would be as silly as not adding it in email.