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MFW Lemmy.world is having server problems (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by [M] to c/tenforward@lemmy.world
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[–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Pay attention to the domain lol

    Same shit with spam emails

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    That's the problem. If there was a well-known user named "foobar@lemmy.world" and that 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 their alt account that they are using while their main account is unusable. As we can see from this thread, genuine users definitely do use alts on different instances to deal with downtimes like this, so that is a plausible cover for an impersonator.

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