Celebrities will never adopt the Fediverse until usernames are centralized. - Lemmy.World

Because let’s say you’re Tom Hanks. And you get [email protected] Well, what’s stopping someone else from adopting [email protected] [[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.