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?
His concern is probably that in comments etc. only username is displayed. You have to go to person’s profile to discover their instance.
Instance is shown if it’s different to the one you’re on. I can see your instance is vlemmy.net
Not if they set a display name. Many of the mobile apps are also bad about it even without a display name.
that’s true, but currently people can set their display name to anything, for example, i could set my display name to @[email protected]
we could all set that as our display name.
Ah, ok