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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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[–] deweydecibel@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That's actually likely to cause some issues down the line with people impersonating other users, but for now It's fine

[–] pjhenry1216@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I mean, it'd be similar in validity as charlie@outlook.com pretending to be charlie@gmail.com. Yeah, it'll fool some people, but easily checked if you keep your head about you.

[–] SoNick@kbin.social 1 points 11 months 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.

[–] pjhenry1216@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

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

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago

On liftoff for android I see always the full username.

[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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, @Cube6392@beehaw.org and @Quill7513@slrpnk.net are the same person, both of them are me, don't panic.

[–] 1984 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's literally like thinking anne@outlook.com and anne@hotmail.com is the same person. :)

[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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. !news@beehaw.org and !news@ttrpg.net don't actually have much in common, in terms of what they're about. I know !news@ttrpg.net 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

[–] 1984 2 points 11 months ago

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.