Mastodon: Person masking their identity?
This looks well dodgy.
Clicking their avatar leads to: https://ap.uwu.st/gar.ajson
- [ ] I searched or browsed the repo’s other issues to ensure this is not a duplicate.
- [ ] This bug happens on a tagged release and not on
master(If you're a user, don't worry about this).
Cassolotl
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I saw this too a while ago and thought it was a fuckup with the tooltips! (Haven't tried clicking the link)
lfuelling
on 22 Jul 2018
It's bootsy messing around but we need to come up with a way to prevent this
Gargron
on 22 Jul 2018
Perhaps treat username and domain as separate when shortening? The domain should be as visible as possible in an example like this -- something like @Gargron@[email protected] would be better than displaying a really long name that's just trying to push the domain out of sight. Fundamentally, trusting the domain is the first step in determining whether an account is trustworthy -- the username is the second step.
trwnh
on 22 Jul 2018
I think domains, while they need to be trusted are just a sub identifier to username. Having the domain be as visible as possible feels unbalanced from a social network perspective.
What about providing a potential spoof warning/grouping if any length of the spoofer's username contains the domain (or n:length) of other users in the user list. Then we could still benefit from having the username/domain shortened.
e-ht
on 25 Jul 2018
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Perhaps treat username and domain as separate when shortening? The domain should be as visible as possible in an example like this -- something like
@Gargron@[email protected]would be better than displaying a really long name that's just trying to push the domain out of sight. Fundamentally, trusting the domain is the first step in determining whether an account is trustworthy -- the username is the second step.