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Celebrities will never adopt the Fediverse until usernames are centralized.

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.

greenshirtdenimjeans ,

Give em a blue checkmark

nokturne213 ,

$50 bucks little man, put that shit in my hand.

ArtieShaw ,

Shock: I'm not really Artie Shaw.

Lost_My_Mind OP ,

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.

AbouBenAdhem ,

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.

SnotFlickerman ,
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Kind of like the BBC has their own Mastodon server instead of being on someone elses.

Lost_My_Mind OP ,

But look below in the comments. Can you even tell which of my comments came from Lemmy.World, and which comments didn’t? Some platforms will just show Lost_My_Mind. I can’t tell which platform @AbouBenAdhem is posting via. I just see AbouBenAdhem.

AbouBenAdhem ,

I’m not familiar with every client, but on mine it only hides the domain for users on my own server. (Early email used to work exactly the same—you could send an email addressed to just a username with no tld and it would go to the user with that name on your own server by default.)

Lost_My_Mind OP ,

I’m not using any client. I’m just using the browser that came with my cell phone.

missingno ,
@missingno@fedia.io avatar

Yes.

scrubbles ,
@scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech avatar

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.

DragonTypeWyvern ,

Good

Today ,

I think it might be kind of nice to be Tom Hanks and have the name [email protected] and just chat and chill.

NegativeLookBehind ,
@NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world avatar

Those poor celebrities! What will we do without them?

pruwybn ,
@pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Taylor Swift’s Twitter handle is @taylorswift13 and it doesn’t seem to be a problem for her.

Lost_My_Mind OP ,

Because there can only be one taylorswift13.

There aren’t multiple instances on twitter.

pruwybn ,
@pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

My point is there could be a @taylorswift but it doesn’t matter because people know which account is hers.

lambalicious ,

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

There’s over 1400 people solely in the US named Tom Hanks. Tom Hanks The Celebrity does not get patent rights or trademarks or copyrights on the name.

Wanna know which is the Tom Hanks The Celebrity? Check if their profile is authenticated against their personal website, à-la-Mastodon.

wesker ,
@wesker@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I honestly hope they never adopt the fediverse. Imagine wanting that.

Lost_My_Mind ,

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

Lost_My_Mind ,

Case in point.

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