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Celebrities will never adopt the Fediverse until usernames are centralized. (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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Because let's say you're Tom Hanks. And you get TomHanks@Lemmy.World

Well, what's stopping someone else from adopting TomHanks@Lemm.ee?

And some platforms minimize the text size of platform, or hide it entirely. So you just might see TomHanks, and think it's him. But it's actually a 7 year old Chinese boy with a broken leg in Arizona.

Because anyone can grab the same name, on a different platform.

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[–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

I don't know who Artie Show is. You could have told me you were Artie Shaw, and I'd have not questioned it. I'd have just thought that was your name.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I didn't really expect anyone to know that, which was sort of the joke. He was very famous in his time, but by now it's a bit of a deep cut.

    Artie Shaw was a clarinetist who ran a jazz band. In addition to that, he was also quite the weirdo. Womanizer, liked math a lot (like more than is natural), was an expert marksman who was nationally ranked in that sort of thing, and really into fly fishing. Also, currently, very dead. And that's good because otherwise he'd be 114.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artie_Shaw

    here's a sample of his work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_v3GY3ZqdM

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