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   Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 00:42:10 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

   • The Spritely Institute

   Impersonation attacks happening on Bluesky with its domain integration stuff https://tedium.co/2024/12/17/bluesky-impersonation-risks/

   This is one of the reasons @spritely has gone all-in on Petname Systems as our approach https://spritely.institute/news/two-petnames-papers-are-released.html

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     Nemo_bis 🌈 (nemobis@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 00:53:38 JST Nemo_bis 🌈

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @cwebber #Wikipedia discovered the risks of impersonation a couple decades ago. That's why using real names is generally discouraged, *especially* for celebrities. For the longest time, non-pseudonymous accounts were instantly blocked in many language editions, until a process was established for those who wanted more official-looking usernames. (It's only worth it when necessary to declare COIs.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Username_policy#Real_names

     Funnily, here's a 2004 proposal by @evan:
     https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Real_names

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 01:50:31 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     • infinite love ⴳ
     • Rich Bruchal
     • The Spritely Institute

     @trwnh @richbruchal @spritely Yup it can definitely happen on the fediverse within its current interfaces. Fediverse clients could be updated to a petname approach too though

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     Rich Bruchal (richbruchal@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 01:50:32 JST Rich Bruchal

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     • The Spritely Institute

     @cwebber @spritely This could happen here in the Fediverse too, right? Or at least on Mastodon. Not your handle, but you can get the little checkmark if you link back to your website.

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     infinite love ⴳ (trwnh@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 01:50:32 JST infinite love ⴳ

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     • Rich Bruchal
     • The Spritely Institute

     @richbruchal @cwebber @spritely it can happen anywhere. even in the simplest namespace, can you tell anything about the true identity of richbruchal vs realrichbruchal vs therealrichbruchal? you can link identities but without one of them having some reputation, it's not gonna help you out much