I was recently approached by a user claiming to be the developer of Sync for Lemmy who wanted to be a moderator of the community I created, !syncforlemmy.
I was able to verify this user was indeed LJ Dawson as I knew where to contact him on Discord.
It is quite possible that an impostor user on another instance may be created, for example ljdawson@beehaw.org could easily be made.
Should Lemmy have a verified user marker for members who are of importance to any given community? Are there any other options to protect users against nefarious persons playing impostor?
Is Keybase still popular (if it ever was) these days? I know at some point it was an alright way to verify a collection of your online identities with each other.
It looks like they had Mastodon integration however I can’t seem to find anything about linking a keybase account with Mastodon anymore, and their integration guide looks to be a dead link now.