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How can federated networks protect their users from impostor accounts? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by itsmikeyd@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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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 ljdawson@beehaw.org 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?

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[–] itsmikeyd@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I respect your position, but I think that as federated services gain popularity, the percentage of users who have the nous to validate any person decreases. Additionally, I can't image users being happy about answering large numbers of validation messages.