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Celebrities will never adopt the Fediverse until usernames are centralized. (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 days 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] -1 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Right now Lemmy has something like 16K users, and a few hundred instances. Most of which are small instances hosting less than 10 users.

What I'm suggesting is a few hundred thousand instances, with millions of users, if not billions.

And I assume the instances would face a point where they need organization. So certain instances start hosting certain types of content.

So if you personally don't want to read on home and garden topics, you don't read those instances. That's what I'm suggesting. If you want to stick to your small corner of the fediverse, you do that.

What you're suggesting is that the fediverse never expand beyond the people you deem worthy of contributing content.

I tried to give peer-tube a chance. None of my youtube creators are producing content on peer-tube. I gave up when every single instance I found was just linux content.

With more celebrities bring more content. With more content brings more users. With more users brings more communities, and more niches.

I'm trying to bring down reddit, and instagram, and youtube, and twitter, and everything else thats considered social media. In its place, social media will default to the fediverse.

You on the other hand are trying to keep the fediverse from growing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

None of my youtube creators are producing content on peer-tube.

That's probably more of a monetization issue than anything related to peertube. If your job is making Youtube videos, then at least some portion of your income is AdSense. Sure, it's not what it was, but at scale it's not nothing, and the peertube alternative is.... $0.

(Also, for the non-commercial ones or the ones that are funded outside of Youtube, maybe ask if they'll use Peertube. I've had luck with a couple of people I watched being willing to upload to multiple platforms, but you don't know if you don't ask.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I can't ask, because years ago I watched a video on twitter. It was funny. I tweeted "That killed me".

I was banned for inciting death threats by an automod.

They've never heard of mastodon.

And unless I just have no idea where it is, youtube doesn't seem to have a direct messaging system. Everything these days is twitter.

So I'm trying to change that.

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

I can’t ask, because years ago I watched a video on twitter. It was funny. I tweeted “That killed me”. I was banned
youtube doesn’t seem to have a direct messaging system.

Does this person have a patreon or something similar? Could sign up and then ask there. Or leave a youtube comment on a recent video sharing your email address.

Heck, I might risk creating a new youtube account over VPN just to ask in a public youtube comment for peertube (so if YT bans the account for mentioning peertube, it's no loss to me, and the creator has still gotten the message).

They’ve never heard of mastodon.

Makes sense if this was years ago, back when it was younger and less wide spread.. I also imagine you just heard and saw this, but didn't directly ask because, well yeah.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

You're right. I see no more intrinsic value in having 1mil users, versus 15k. And nothing you can say is likely to convince me that quantity determines or makes for a valuable platform. We've seen the growth mentality and resulting corporate greed destroy numerous platforms already.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Except in this case, there can be no corporate green to destroy the fediverse. They can build and destroy their own instance, and their own communities....but the very nature of the fediverse is that it scales well, and it CAN'T be owned. So growth can only help. Temporarily it may crash the servers with more traffic than it can handle, but more instances and servers will be added, and the userbase will spread out.