Is impersonation a possible problem in the fediverse?
Is impersonation a possible problem in the fediverse?
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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To me, this just seems like a variation of the age-old issue of online impersonation. In the early days of social media, there were people squatting on famous people's name/registering variations.
On my instance, admins are tagged as such which seems like a good solution. I wouldn't be surprised if we start seeing verification like on Mastodon, though I couldn't find any issues for this on their github.
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