• bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
    401·
    1 year ago

    There’s value in knowing if a response is from a specific person, even if they aren’t a celebrity.

    • RickRussell_CA@lemmy.world
      153·
      1 year ago

      But if you want to confirm which instance a username is from, you can do that. Even if reader apps hide it, you can always check the web page.

        • buckybeaky@lemmy.ml
          2·
          1 year ago

          If you can’t be bothered to check you probably don’t need to know who the author really is

        • karlthemailman@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          1 year ago

          I guess anyone who cares enough? You’ll still need some sort of external confirmation anyway.

          Sync for reddit had a way you could tag users with labels like “so and so celeb”. I’m sure Lemmy apps will evolve something similar.

        • b34k@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          The app I’m running (Mlem) shows that you’re lemm.ee while the other RickRussell_CA is lemmy.world when I click on either of your names.

          I think that’s an easy enough lift to sort it out, (though direct display might still be better).

    • jayknight@lemmy.ml
      9·
      1 year ago

      As a long time reddit moderator, people creating similar usernames to impersonate another user is definitely a problem. That was instantly bannable in all the subs I’ve moderated.

      Having color coded usernames calculated based on their full user/ host could help. Something like https://gustu.github.io/string-to-color/. That would make it more obvious that two users aren’t the same user.

      • milkisklim@lemm.ee
        1·
        1 year ago

        In the subreddits dedicated to the Cosmere multiverse created by Brandon Sanderson, who is an active redditors, we had a meme of pinging something close to but not actually his username. Especially when it wasn’t something worth wasting his time.

        But yeah, completely agree. I am sure it was frustrating.