I mean, pretending to be someone in another instance, “stealing” the username, is trivial. I see the more likely targets being instance admins or high profile users. Should we worry somewhat about this?

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    Some other projects in the fediverse have a verification mechanism in place.

    I personally like Mastodon’s: if you add on your profile a link to a webpage that itself links to your profile, Mastodon will show a green checkmark next to the link: https://joinmastodon.org/verification

    So you can verify your profile by linking to a webpage you own or testifies your account’s authenticity (ie. your blog, your author page of the publication your write for, etc.)