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

submitted 2 months 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] 3 points 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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.