True, but the coolest thing is it just goes to show another benefit of the fediverse. We’re still able to post/comment on here with alts even when their servers are having issues.
Also an opportunity to impersonate someone like a mod or something by making an account on a different instance using the same username of a known user and claiming to be their alt. I cannot think of lasting damage that could be done, but just pointing out that there can be also downsides that we should be wary of.
That’s the problem. If there was a well-known user named “foobar@lemmy.world” and the instance went down, that would be a perfect opportunity for some other random person to create an account named “foobar@sh.itjust.works” and claim to be the alt account of “foobar@lemmy.world”, just on a different instance because lemmy.world is down at the moment.
True, but the coolest thing is it just goes to show another benefit of the fediverse. We’re still able to post/comment on here with alts even when their servers are having issues.
Also an opportunity to impersonate someone like a mod or something by making an account on a different instance using the same username of a known user and claiming to be their alt. I cannot think of lasting damage that could be done, but just pointing out that there can be also downsides that we should be wary of.
Pay attention to the domain lol
Same shit with spam emails
That’s the problem. If there was a well-known user named “foobar@lemmy.world” and the instance went down, that would be a perfect opportunity for some other random person to create an account named “foobar@sh.itjust.works” and claim to be the alt account of “foobar@lemmy.world”, just on a different instance because lemmy.world is down at the moment.
Fair, some sort of verifiable identity marker, people hate crypto but an nft in your wallet could be used for identification.
Abe Froman… I mean, ummthatguy?
Hmm a very interesting point. And I don’t think we want to implement a “blue check” symbol for verified accounts.
I would pay eight replicator rations for Lemmy Premium just to get a lame checkmark by my name.