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Is impersonation a possible problem in the fediverse? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by ICastFist@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] sim642@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's why instance is part of the username. It's no different than email addresses.

[–] director@some.institute 5 points 1 year ago

Confusing similar domain names are a common thing with email. Micr0soft.com vs Microsoft.com. Same idea could be done with instances.

[–] skomposzczet@vlemmy.net 2 points 1 year ago

His concern is probably that in comments etc. only username is displayed. You have to go to person's profile to discover their instance.