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Why is Lemmy World down? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by favrion@lemmy.ml to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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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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[-] pjhenry1216@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

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 2 years ago

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.

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

On liftoff for android I see always the full username.

[-] pjhenry1216@kbin.social 1 points 2 years 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.

this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2023
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