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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] 7 points 1 month ago (8 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Because there can only be one taylorswift13.

There aren't multiple instances on twitter.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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

@pruwybn same for drakes instagram (champagnepapi)

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