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?

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    2 years ago

    Instance is shown if it’s different to the one you’re on. I can see your instance is vlemmy.net

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      2 years ago

      Not if they set a display name. Many of the mobile apps are also bad about it even without a display name.

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      2 years ago

      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.