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When Logging In, Saw Another Username and Icon (self.lemmyworld)

submitted 1 year ago by nonresonant to c/lemmyworld

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I just created my account on lemmy.world today to match the username I have on lemmy.ml.

When I logged in just now, the screen refreshed with a different users name and icon for less than 1 second and then updated to mine.

I thought that was really strange behavior. Has anyone else experienced this? Any idea how/why this could have happened?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sounds to me like the server had their caching misconfigured, resulting in a personalised page being put in a public cache. Normally only static resources such as images and static webpages would be put in a public cache.

Currently I don't think there's any private information that could be leaked this way in lemmy, but it might be wise to notify the instance admins about this.

[–] KelsonV 3 points 1 year ago

I wonder if it's the same problem I was having yesterday when I opened a bunch of communities in tabs and subscribed to them, and some of the tabs showed the wrong info in the box. (probably also caching)

[–] nonresonant 2 points 1 year ago

Will do. Thanks.