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.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I can’t ask, because years ago I watched a video on twitter. It was funny. I tweeted “That killed me”.

    I was banned for inciting death threats by an automod.

    They’ve never heard of mastodon.

    And unless I just have no idea where it is, youtube doesn’t seem to have a direct messaging system. Everything these days is twitter.

    So I’m trying to change that.