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Why is Lemmy World down? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Why do the instances keep going down? It makes me think that this is not a reliable social network, but the alternatives are not as good.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, it'd be similar in validity as [email protected] pretending to be [email protected]. Yeah, it'll fool some people, but easily checked if you keep your head about you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The difference is that ActivityPub clients currently only display the username part and hide the host for some reason. This can lead to confusion, I don't get why the full address isn't displayed by default.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

On liftoff for android I see always the full username.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Email does that too. It's even worse, you can make "[email protected]" show up but it's really [email protected]. Granted, many emails hosts are getting better at flagging these, but one can still click the name to confirm on Kbin or Lemmy.