Les OrchardPeople still fretting about "owning" their username on every instance.
<morpheus>What if I told you that you never owned your username on the birdsite in the first place?</morpheus>
TheLSDJ@lmorchard I think there is a valid criticism here that mastodon needs better UI/UX for identifying whether someone is is who you think they are.
zack wol berg@thelsdj @lmorchard Based on the saga of my wife and her namesake in the UK (who thinks [REDACTED]@gmail is _her_ email address) I'm pretty well convinced this is a Hard Problem in human psychology and we're going to be grappling with it forever.
... Not shortening people's handles, ever, might educate but would probably also suck UX-wise. Allowing assignment of petnames might also help. That's all I got.