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

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.

66 points · 13 comments · view on lemmy.world

13 Comments

Czele@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 3y (4 replies)

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

wazoobonkerbrain@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 3y (3 replies)

No my password is TopSecret123

andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun · 11 pts · 3y (1 reply)

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

wazoobonkerbrain@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y

oh god here we go again

Czele@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y

Hahaa we are password buddies!

tauonite@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3y (3 replies)

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
wazoobonkerbrain@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y (2 replies)

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.

tauonite@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y (1 reply)

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

wazoobonkerbrain@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y

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

tallwookie@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y (2 replies)

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

wazoobonkerbrain@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 3y (1 reply)

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

tallwookie@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y

ah, a doppelganger

dickusmungus@kbin.social · -10 pts · 3y
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