Smalls 🎃 👻 🍭based on the username model though, wouldn't there be a great deal of impersonation potential? What would stop someone from firing up 18 diff instances and using your username / avatar with a diff domain name - would be confusing/frustrating for ppl trying to find the 'real' you, no?
infosystir@bigendiansmalls pfft....NO ONE can impersonate me
@infosystir I AM IRONMAN.
*headbangs to black sabbath
*headbangs to black sabbath
Lee Brotherston@bigendiansmalls maybe we need to prod the keybase people into including this in the "I identify myself as ...." thinger?
@synackpse that I like. Included in your profile for example...
@bigendiansmalls Yes! A "can haz keybase" profile checkmark :)
zyuiop | Louis@bigendiansmalls That's all about trust, same thing with mails for example :x
@zyuiop_ Yeah .. i can see that .. just thinking out loud I guess. Troll accts on twitter with very similar names are also kind of the same problem.
@bigendiansmalls have you heard about keybase.io ?
@bigendiansmalls (considering your bio I guess you have)
@bigendiansmalls I think a system of proofs based on a similar system (using a site users can trust to authenticate you on other medias)
@bigendiansmalls ...could be interesting
(I forgot the end of my toot :p)
@zyuiop_ indeed - and thats a good way to verify
John Simpson@bigendiansmalls I *think* the usernames are referenced in a manner similar to jabber. "@" is technically local to a particular server but thinking "@user@server" is how you specify someone on a diff server?
@Thracky sort of it's like this
"[email protected]" is Gargron on this instance. But you could start thracky.goblin and be [email protected]. when you toot publicly then that's how it shows up vs his. Kind of makes sense. I'm warming to it.
"[email protected]" is Gargron on this instance. But you could start thracky.goblin and be [email protected]. when you toot publicly then that's how it shows up vs his. Kind of makes sense. I'm warming to it.
@bigendiansmalls Do a search for "@mastodon.xyz" for example. You'll see a few users show up
Alyssa Rowan@bigendiansmalls :bird: didn't have anything for that for a very long time, hence the whole :white_check_mark: thing, but also all the usernames with "real" and "official" in them.
Like Matrix, it shows the instance domain.
There's still _some_ centralisation there (in DNS). Plus, if impersonation becomes a common thing, sites might get rules against it — and not federate impersonated accounts?