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Huh. In the list with “fastest growing #Lemmy instances” are only spam instances now
I’m currently creating an instance ban list for Geddit to block those instances if they don’t take action… This is a disaster waiting to happen :lemmy:
Community name squatting doesn’t make sense at all because different instances can have communities with the same name. So unless they manage to create one on all the big instances, that’s completely useless.
That’s what it seems like to me too. Plus there is nothing stopping admins of instances transferring ownership in these situations.
Exactly. Federated services seem to be much more resilient against abuse by design.
When @'ing or pinging someone by username, the auto complete will suggest matching users from across federated instances. So typo squatting could be a thing, or user impersonation. But it’d be rather transparent when it occurs, but some could still fall for such tactics, just like with email spam or phishing scams.
That’s a problem for sure. And if someone has a display name, someone else can create a user with the same avatar and display name on another instance, and pretend to be them.
Do you think we should
sellshow little blue checkmarks for users from your same home instance? 😆