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.
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.
That’s actually likely to cause some issues down the line with people impersonating other users, but for now It’s fine
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.
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.
On liftoff for android I see always the full username.
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.
It’s already happening. I saw a sh.itjust.works user impersonating a lemmy.world admin and presenting opposite positions to what that lemmy.world admin believed. I use keyoxide to help provide confirmation that yes, @[email protected] and @[email protected] are the same person, both of them are me, don’t panic.
It’s literally like thinking [email protected] and [email protected] is the same person. :)
I mean slightly bad example since Microsoft migrated a bunch of their hotmail users to outlook addresses hahahaha. But yeah. I especially feel that way about people who want all !news communities to just be aggregated together when that doesn’t actually make sense when you think about it for more than a second. [email protected] and [email protected] don’t actually have much in common, in terms of what they’re about. I know [email protected] doesn’t actually exist, but it feasibly could exist as a community for discussing table top role playing game news, like if Dungeons and Dragons has a big new release of material or something
Oh they did… Yeah I don’t know about microsoft these days, I don’t follow what they are doing. :) But yeah, just making a point.
I think it makes sense to use the fediverse in a semi-anonomous way and not strive for centralized login systems since it will lead to being tracked.