I love that we can have screen names as well as the unique account username, but I’m wondering: if I look at a comment thread containing two people using the same display name (in the worst case, where one is trying to impersonate the other) is there a clear indicator to see that Person A is not Person B?
In discord this used to be done with the four digit number after the display name, but that doesn’t seem to be a thing here, and so far as I can tell it’s not displaying my account name on my comments and posts.
I worry that, as Lemmy grows, perhaps an issue with impersonators could develop if distinguishing between different users with the same display name requires checking their account pages, since most people won’t check. But maybe I’m missing something?
To be clear, I’m not remotely arguing for getting rid of the display names. I love the display names, keep the display names. Especially when I’m just imagining a hypothetical future problem that may not even turn out to be much of a problem.
I still see you as Juniper
Odd, it shows up as Pigeon for me. I wonder if there’s a delay.
Maybe? Could take a bit for user changes to federate out
It shows up as Pigeon for me! On desktop. The only difference I see is the “creator” tag on my name. Oh dear 0.o
1-man instances proven more superior to see through impersonation :P