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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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[–] 29 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Tom@tomhanks.com

A celebrity can host their own domain to prove authenticity.

So what. On Xitter I can make an account called Tom.Hanks and get the blue mark by paying Elon. Because Tom Hanks has the username Tom_Hanks.

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  • [–] [S] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You're missing the point. You can have Tom.Hanks@twitter.com but you can't have Tom_Hanks@othertwitter.com

    So when you come to the fediverse, instead of searching for Tom_Hanks@tomhanks.com, you just search for Tom_Hanks, and the fediverse will know that defaults to the account Tom_Hanks. Which is the same account on Lemmy, the same account on Peertube, the same account on pixelfed.

    Because it's all Tom_Hanks.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Except Tom@TomHanks.com will come up first because they will surely have the most fooloerrs.

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