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

submitted 1 month ago by Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Because let's say you're Tom Hanks. And you get TomHanks@Lemmy.World

Well, what's stopping someone else from adopting TomHanks@Lemm.ee?

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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[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 month ago

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@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

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.

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