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Possible username abuse? (Resolved by lemm.ee admins Aug 29 2023) (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey folks. A question for you.

I'm RickRussell_CA on lemmy.world, kbin.social, lemmy.ml, and beehaw.org.

When I saw that lemm.ee was coming up in the rankings, I decided that perhaps I should stake my claim here. But, as you may guess, there is already a RickRussell_CA on lemm.ee.

It's even using the profile picture that I had originally used on lemmy.world. It's made 1 comment (on a since deleted post) and no submissions.

I've used the "Forgot password" link and it's definitely not my account, as it doesn't recognize my email.

I understand that this is a risk under the Fediverse model, but I'm a bit worried that somebody staked this out as a way of impersonating me.

Is there any way to address this?

EDIT: lemm.ee admins saw this post, and banned the account. Thanks to them!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Near name attacks are always a issue online, doubly so in federated places.

Even if you got your own domain name [email protected]

Someone could register [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, I'm aware. Although it's not "near name" in this case, it's the same username. Which I understand to be a risk of the federated model, I just thought I'd ask to see if there was any recourse.

One hopes that instance & community admins and others will look closely at the fully qualified username before pulling the trigger on bans, and that sort of thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's near name, because the only difference is the domain name.