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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] 1 points 2 months ago (3 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] 1 points 2 months ago

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

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months 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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