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

submitted 4 months 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] 33 points 4 months ago (36 children)

I presume I'm supposed to care, but I dont, and I don't know why anyone would.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (14 children)

It should work the same as email: you can trust it’s them if the user account is hosted on their own site, or their employer’s, or if they link to it from another confirmed source.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Ah, yes, that's a very good point. You're the smartest man in the world!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Case in point.

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