Celebrities will never adopt the Fediverse until usernames are centralized.

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world to Fediverse@lemmy.world – -19 points –

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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I'm actually flattered that I have this... reputation on Lemmy lol.

Personally, I don't care if celebrities come and join, even Taylor. Honestly that's one of the reasons I'm okay with threads starting to federate, I see celebrities joining there and then we can sub from our instances. Best of both worlds imo.

Well, I've been following your work on your instance for a while, so I thought about you.

Thank you for your comment!

@rglullis@communick.news, one instance admin okay to federate with Threads!