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When I Log In As Me (wazoobonkerbrain), The ID of Another User ("calaei") Briefly Flashes On Screen (self.lemmyworld)
submitted 1 year ago by wazoobonkerbrain to c/lemmyworld
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When I first open up lemmy.world in the browser, I am not logged in, and at top right it says Login. I type my username and password and hit enter. I get the hourglass for a few seconds, then for a split second the word Login is replaced by another word, before displaying my username (wazoobonkerbrain).

I did a screencast (recording) so that I could slow it down enough to see what the other word is and it is "calaei". The screencast is in webm format and I can share it if you want, I don't see a way to post it here.

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[โ€“] Czele 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Looks like a 'Sorry, password samsung1 is already taken by user calaei' moment xD

[โ€“] wazoobonkerbrain 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No my password is TopSecret123

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Weird, all I can see is ************.

[โ€“] wazoobonkerbrain 5 points 1 year ago

oh god here we go again

[โ€“] Czele 7 points 1 year ago

Hahaa we are password buddies!

[โ€“] tauonite 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've actually tried playing around with it and I've made two findings about it:

  1. It seems to happen when fetchInitialData is set in lemmy-ui/src/shared/routes.ts
  2. It cannot be used to see any sensitive information, as far as I have investigated
[โ€“] wazoobonkerbrain 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well I did catch a brief glimpse of a photo that the other user posted of his junk. Whether or not that's sensitive is subjective I guess.

[โ€“] tauonite 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where did you see that? Was it (supposed to be) private?

[โ€“] wazoobonkerbrain 5 points 1 year ago

I was only joking, I didn't see that.

[โ€“] tallwookie 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i've seen that a few times myself & have seen it reported before as well. I suspect that it's an undocumented feature.

[โ€“] wazoobonkerbrain 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think that the other user who pops up is your secret lemmy twin

[โ€“] tallwookie 4 points 1 year ago

ah, a doppelganger