When I Log In As Me (wazoobonkerbrain), The ID of Another User ("calaei") Briefly Flashes On Screen

3 years ago by wazoobonkerbrain to c/lemmyworld

When I first open up lemmy.world in the browser, I am not logged in, and at top right it says Login. I type my username and password and hit enter. I get the hourglass for a few seconds, then for a split second the word Login is replaced by another word, before displaying my username (wazoobonkerbrain).

I did a screencast (recording) so that I could slow it down enough to see what the other word is and it is "calaei". The screencast is in webm format and I can share it if you want, I don't see a way to post it here.

Czele 18 points 3 years ago

Looks like a 'Sorry, password samsung1 is already taken by user calaei' moment xD

path: 0 318855, hotness: undefined, score: 18, children: 4
wazoobonkerbrain 14 points 3 years ago

No my password is TopSecret123

path: 0 318855 319148, hotness: undefined, score: 14, children: 3
andrew 11 points 3 years ago

Weird, all I can see is ************.

path: 0 318855 319148 320155, hotness: undefined, score: 11, children: 1
wazoobonkerbrain 5 points 3 years ago

oh god here we go again

path: 0 318855 319148 320155 320283, hotness: undefined, score: 5, children: 0
Czele 7 points 3 years ago

Hahaa we are password buddies!

path: 0 318855 319148 319689, hotness: undefined, score: 7, children: 0
tauonite 11 points 3 years ago

I've actually tried playing around with it and I've made two findings about it:

  1. It seems to happen when fetchInitialData is set in lemmy-ui/src/shared/routes.ts
  2. It cannot be used to see any sensitive information, as far as I have investigated
path: 0 320436, hotness: undefined, score: 11, children: 3
wazoobonkerbrain 4 points 3 years ago

Well I did catch a brief glimpse of a photo that the other user posted of his junk. Whether or not that's sensitive is subjective I guess.

path: 0 320436 320613, hotness: undefined, score: 4, children: 2
tauonite 5 points 3 years ago

Where did you see that? Was it (supposed to be) private?

path: 0 320436 320613 320715, hotness: undefined, score: 5, children: 1
wazoobonkerbrain 5 points 3 years ago

I was only joking, I didn't see that.

path: 0 320436 320613 320715 320783, hotness: undefined, score: 5, children: 0
tallwookie 8 points 3 years ago

i've seen that a few times myself & have seen it reported before as well. I suspect that it's an undocumented feature.

path: 0 319680, hotness: undefined, score: 8, children: 2
wazoobonkerbrain 13 points 3 years ago

I think that the other user who pops up is your secret lemmy twin

path: 0 319680 319933, hotness: undefined, score: 13, children: 1
tallwookie 4 points 3 years ago

ah, a doppelganger

path: 0 319680 319933 320093, hotness: undefined, score: 4, children: 0
dickusmungus -10 points 3 years ago
path: 0 325579, hotness: undefined, score: -10, children: 0
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