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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    1 year ago

    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.

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        1 year ago

        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

      • dQw4w9WgXcQ@vlemmy.net
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        1 year ago

        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.