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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 5 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Photoshop exists.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

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