Can you steal a user's identity if you gain their old domain name?
Just a random thought experiment. Let’s say I have my account on a lemmy instance: [email protected]
. One day I decide to stop paying for the domain and move to [email protected]
, and someone else gains it and also starts up a lemmy instance.
If they make their own [email protected]
, how do federated instances distinguish who’s who?
Have I misunderstood the role of domain names in this?
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