it seems we’ve got our first user who started a community with the same name as their username: backlash76.
this is not a problem for lemmy because it uses the ! prefix for communities, and the @ prefix for users, so it never mixes them up.
however, it is a problem for mastodon (and iirc, kbin also). I think these use the webfinger protocol to lookup users and communities (while ignoring the prefixes).
I can’t remember where I read it, but it seems when there is a “name clash” between user and community, mastodon prefers one, while kbin prefers the other. (it would be nice if mastodon and kbin users could try searching for @backlash76@monyet.cc and see if what I read is true.)
in this case the user is moderating the community with the same name. but what if a user starts a community with the name of another user? it would force kbin or mastodon (whichever gives preference to the community when there is a “name clash”) to find the wrong “user”.
attention admins this could require a new rule. one that says communities that are created by a user with the same name as another user will be deleted…or something like that.
Kbin ok, because they have mags and users anyway so it can be read fine. On my main account, only the comm shows up. On my calckey alt, only the user shows up lol.
I finally found the issue, and it turns out it was a kbin one: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/700 (putting the link here for reference, as one of the commenters there said they had to “scroll through 30 posts with magazine in the title”, and I certainly don’t want to do that if I ever forget the link again).
according to that person on kbin, calckey returns the magazine while mastodon returns the user. however, according to what you’ve found, for “name clashes” on lemmy, it’s the other way around, with calckey getting the user and mastodon the community.
I think the admins have to really think about a new rule for how to deal with this so our usernames do not get “hijacked” by someone else starting a community with the same name.
speaking of hijacking, does anyone have an idea why https://wiki.fxmed.co.nz is pointing here? I think that domain has started showing up on google searches for monyet.cc.
it seems we’ve got our first user who started a community with the same name as their username:
backlash76.this is not a problem for lemmy because it uses the
!prefix for communities, and the@prefix for users, so it never mixes them up.however, it is a problem for mastodon (and iirc, kbin also). I think these use the webfinger protocol to lookup users and communities (while ignoring the prefixes).
I can’t remember where I read it, but it seems when there is a “name clash” between user and community, mastodon prefers one, while kbin prefers the other. (it would be nice if mastodon and kbin users could try searching for
@backlash76@monyet.ccand see if what I read is true.)in this case the user is moderating the community with the same name. but what if a user starts a community with the name of another user? it would force kbin or mastodon (whichever gives preference to the community when there is a “name clash”) to find the wrong “user”.
attention admins this could require a new rule. one that says communities that are created by a user with the same name as another user will be deleted…or something like that.
Kbin ok, because they have mags and users anyway so it can be read fine. On my main account, only the comm shows up. On my calckey alt, only the user shows up lol.
I finally found the issue, and it turns out it was a kbin one: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/700 (putting the link here for reference, as one of the commenters there said they had to “scroll through 30 posts with
magazinein the title”, and I certainly don’t want to do that if I ever forget the link again).according to that person on kbin, calckey returns the magazine while mastodon returns the user. however, according to what you’ve found, for “name clashes” on lemmy, it’s the other way around, with calckey getting the user and mastodon the community.
I think the admins have to really think about a new rule for how to deal with this so our usernames do not get “hijacked” by someone else starting a community with the same name.
speaking of hijacking, does anyone have an idea why https://wiki.fxmed.co.nz is pointing here? I think that domain has started showing up on google searches for monyet.cc.