Celebrities will never adopt the Fediverse until usernames are centralized. - eviltoast

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.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    2 months ago

    One good thing IMO about threads federating, that we get the celebrities, we know they’re verified, but I don’t have to join corpo social media.