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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[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Tom@tomhanks.com

A celebrity can host their own domain to prove authenticity.

So what. On Xitter I can make an account called Tom.Hanks and get the blue mark by paying Elon. Because Tom Hanks has the username Tom_Hanks.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You're missing the point. You can have Tom.Hanks@twitter.com but you can't have Tom_Hanks@othertwitter.com

So when you come to the fediverse, instead of searching for Tom_Hanks@tomhanks.com, you just search for Tom_Hanks, and the fediverse will know that defaults to the account Tom_Hanks. Which is the same account on Lemmy, the same account on Peertube, the same account on pixelfed.

Because it's all Tom_Hanks.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Except Tom@TomHanks.com will come up first because they will surely have the most fooloerrs.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

fooloerrs

Typo, but kind of a cool word too. Like people who would fool around

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

Oh god it looks like I had a stroke at the end of that sentence ahhaha