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Celebrities will never adopt the Fediverse until usernames are centralized. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Because let's say you're Tom Hanks. And you get [email protected]

Well, what's stopping someone else from adopting [email protected]?

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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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

You don't want the fediverse to grow?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Not a la Eternal September

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Not like that. I'd rather the FV just slowly accumulate internet weirdos, OSS nerds, etc., than triple in size overnight because some pop singer told their fans to join

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

It is, it is natural organic growth.

Organic growth is much more manageable and predictable than explosive cancerous growth.