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.

  • @[email protected]English
    3•3 months ago

    Or, all accounts in the fedi are anonymous by nature, and if they need to be verified, they are verified on 3rd party sources.

        • @Lost_My_MindOPEnglish
          -2•3 months ago

          Then people won’t sign up for it.

          The fediverse as it stands right now is confusing enough as it is for new people. Now you’re saying you want to add in the chaos that comes from everybody being annonomous? They say that the internet, and trolling, and threats of violence are encouraged online because you’re annonomous. And now you want to highlight that feature on a service thats hard enough to grasp without nazis and death threats.

          • @[email protected]English
            2•3 months ago

            Who cares? Like, none of this matters. Don’t put the fedivwrse on a pedestal

            Nothing here is verified internally, and shouldn’t be. Centralization is antithetical to the decentralized nature of the fediverse.

            • @Lost_My_MindOPEnglish
              0•3 months ago

              Right now it’s not just decentralized. It’s fractured. It should operate as decentralized, but from a performance standpoint it should feel like it’s centralized.

              Remember, most normies won’t know or care what decentralized even is. But the reason sites like instagram have users isn’t because it’s centralized. It’s because that’s where the content is.

              Peertube is suffering HARD from lack of content. Which is why you want celebrities bringing exposure to the fediverse. They bring content.

              Go outside to a popular public place and ask 100 people in person how many people have heard of the fediverse. I’d be SHOCKED if 1 person knew what it was.

              Now get a popular youtuber like markiplyer, or good mythical morning, to post their stuff exclusively on peertube, and suddenly 2-6 million people all flock over and create accounts.