(moved) boots‮🌸🌿‭Apr 4, 2017

okay look
#mastodev, there needs to be a brainstorm on something:
a lot of users are concerned about cross-instance users using their username and impersonating them

what would be a good and userfriendly way to fix this?
gnu social doesn't even have a fix for this yet, it seems, so...

Show thread(moved) boots‮🌸🌿‭
frankly there just needs to be distinction across instances
like it currently isn't very easy to tell if a user is @example or @[email protected] from the timeline
Apr 4, 2017 at 6:43pmWeb
Show threadPete KeenApr 4, 2017
@b it should show the whole handle if it's not local, IMO.
Show threadPete KeenApr 4, 2017
@b but be configurable on the server, so I wouldn't have to look at whole handles on my private instance if I didn't want to.
Show thread(moved) boots‮🌸🌿‭Apr 4, 2017

@pete i mean, it does, but frankly the issue is demonstrated best by your post

(also, even if it did, how am i supposed to tell at a glance what instance you're on)
https://icosahedron.website/media/_VOotY4ouLk3wUS0f4E