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

You really don't need an account on every Lemmy server. If you just pick one that meets your needed values, you can access all the other federated Lemmy content on other instances.

[โ€“] nonresonant 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you! I literally just read that on the getting started post. However, what if someone else creates the same username as me on another instance?

[โ€“] bwok_bwok 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The only reason I can think of to maybe do this is to have an SFW identity and an NSFW identity, and then you would just have your SFW on an instance that blocks NSFW, and your NSFW on an instance that does not.

Your identity is tied to your instance for example I am @[email protected] and anyone who interacts with me from another instance can see that. And if someone chooses the same name at another instance they are a different identity, and the two don't really cross-pollinate, just make sure to include your instance with your username whenever you share it.

[โ€“] nonresonant 3 points 1 year ago

I see. Thanks for the insight.

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

Another reason is not knowing which instance was going to catch on fire today ๐Ÿ”ฅ. You can only post from your own instance, so being able to switch - at least now in the early days - is a nice perk

[โ€“] nonresonant 2 points 1 year ago

Another thing I noticed is that some communities are duplicated on different instances but not with the same users and content.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah this was my thought as well. Seemed like a good move until instances are able to scale and support the increase in traffic.

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

I haven't seen this, but I have seen a different post show up than the one I clicked on. It was very not safe for work so that's not great.

[โ€“] nonresonant 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah. One thing I'm not really liking about Lemmy so far is the NSFW posts/avatars. The blur isn't blurry enough in the images and you can see what's behind it, and the avatars are a free-for-all. Not great if your kid if peaking at your screen while you scroll.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I see this now on feddit.uk but permanently displaying the wrong name not just for a few seconds.

[โ€“] [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.

[โ€“] 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)

[โ€“] nonresonant 2 points 1 year ago

Will do. Thanks.

[โ€“] jtb 1 points 1 year ago

I saw this too.

I have tried to create an account on a different server as this one seems really slow.