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Changing the handle (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello folks,

I fear I know the answer but would it be possible to change the handle later on? I know it’s sentimental but I’d like to change just the handle instead of the whole account.

The answers I saw are a bit outdated therefore I thought I give it a try to ask here.

Cheers!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm curious on that. Programming isn't really my part of the game, but generally with something like this there would be some sort of signing keypair for any given identity to avoid even a server admin from creating posts purporting to originate from an alternate source. Async crypto has an identity encoded into the key pair for which it's valid (look at the cert for any https website, within that big string of gibberish there is a set of encoded info that lists the site name, issuer, dates, etc) and if you just brute force changed the user ID it would no longer match the keypair making it invalid.

I'm not even sure such exists here, but without it really we all would have about much credibility as anons on 4chan, and what good is any kind of vote/karma scoring then?