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.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • Blaze@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      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!