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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.

autonomoususer ,

Never heard of email

HubertManne ,

I have a dream that one day I be part of a platform where one will not be judged by the glamor of their username but by the quality of their discourse.

halm ,
@halm@leminal.space avatar

That’s a feature, not a bug. Celebrity culture needs to get in the sea.

rglullis ,
@rglullis@communick.news avatar

If you are that famous or worried about trademark, you shouldn’t be using someone else’s server. Tom Hanks can just buy e.g tomhanks.actor domain and set up the @[email protected] AP actor.

I keep repeating this: the weird part is that we still have all these companies and institutions being okay with depending on someone else’s namespace. Having the NYT still announcing their Twitter or Instagram for social media presence is the same as using aol.com for their email.

SorteKanin ,
@SorteKanin@feddit.dk avatar

Because anyone can grab the same name, on a different platform.

That’s always the case, even for centralized platforms. Usernames are just usernames. Same thing with email. This is a fundamental problem with the internet and the solution is that celebrities and such host their own ActivityPub server (just like their own email server) or make it clear on their personal website what their own official account is somewhere else.

Blaze , (edited )
@Blaze@feddit.org avatar

We had a AMA with Will Ropp, an actor a few months ago: lemm.ee/post/31335226

!movies

We verified it was him by having him send us a message from his IG.

meldrik ,
  • Take picture of proof you are Tom Hanks
  • post picture on Lemmy
  • Pin it to the top on your profile (once that feature exist)
  • ???
  • profit!

Either way, celebrities will probably never use Lemmy or other social media unless it goes mainstream.

Lost_My_Mind OP ,

Yeah, thats the goal. To make the fediverse (and Lemmy by assosiation) mainstream.

LiPoly ,

Photoshop exists.

meldrik ,

Don’t be silly. Tom Hanks have no idea how to use Photoshop…

gravitas_deficiency ,

You seem to be under the impression that it’s good if this place grows explosively. It’s not. There’s no VC to pay back here (and thank fuckin god for that). There’s no ad revenue here (again, this is good).

Also, not entirely sure what exactly to make of the weirdly targeted quip about a Chinese child, but spidey sense says it’s nothing good.

Lost_My_Mind OP ,

Not sure what VC stands for…

But the Chinese boy with the broken leg is my 103 year old grandmother in a wheelchair. But he’s not actually Taylor Swift, which is the point of the comparison.

BlorpTheHagraven ,

The narwal bacons at midnight?

Blaze ,
@Blaze@feddit.org avatar

Please no

halm ,
@halm@leminal.space avatar

VC = venture capitalism.

jeffhykin ,

Your family is going to be shocked when they hear about email

csolisr ,

Account verification is relatively simple, if you have your own website you just add a link back with a special formatting. Problem is, barely anyone applies for self-verification, and several platforms such as Lemmy don't support self-verification whatsoever. I can see why something like a distributed verification agency should be a thing, if we manage to make the implementation less technical for the end users of course.

queermunist , (edited )
@queermunist@lemmy.ml avatar

This would require some kind of federation alliance of instances that check each other’s usernames to ensure no duplicates over the whole network. Sure, maybe lemmy.shit doesn’t recognize the network, but then they don’t get federated with.

This is definitely possible, but it doesn’t seem to be happening.

Lost_My_Mind OP ,

Oh I’ve been thinking it needs an official alliance now for some time. Where a preagreed set of protocols are all adheard to. Just so all the services can play nicely with each other. Still decentralized in operation, but unified in experience.

And if some rouge instance wants to stay seperate, well, good luck growing hexbear.

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.

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 ,
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Those poor celebrities! What will we do without them?

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