Fediverse

Discord and email worked for a long time with needing something extra after the name. Why would the fediverse be different?

What's stopping that same 7 year old taking [email protected] before the real Tom Hanks even knows about Lemmy?

It's not the lack of unique usernames that's a problem. It's the lack of identity verification. Which, I mean, understandably is lacking because it's not like there are high profile people making accounts here. Well, except of course for Margot Robbie.

I see this as a benefit. Generally speaking celebrity posts are the most useless threads on most platforms.

Well, what’s stopping someone else from adopting [email protected]?

There's over 1400 people solely in the US named Tom Hanks. Tom Hanks The Celebrity does not get patent rights or trademarks or copyrights on the name.

Wanna know which is the Tom Hanks The Celebrity? Check if their profile is authenticated against their personal website, à-la-Mastodon.

Yes, but you see. Lemmy users generally don't give a flat fuck about what celebrities want.

[email protected]

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.

That's a feature, not a bug. Celebrity culture needs to get in the sea.

I presume I'm supposed to care, but I dont, and I don't know why anyone would.

The fix for this is for the guilds and unions that represent these celebrities to spin up their own instances. The suffix of the username granting the legitimacy.

Celebrities are going to be shocked when they hear about email

Never heard of email

Who the fuck wants celebrities here?

This is a good thing.

It should work the same as email: you can trust it’s them if the user account is hosted on their own site, or their employer’s, or if they link to it from another confirmed source.

If you are that famous or worried about trademark, you shouldn't be using someone else's server. Tom Hanks can just buy e.g tomhanks.actor domain and set up the @[email protected] AP actor.

I keep repeating this: the weird part is that we still have all these companies and institutions being okay with depending on someone else's namespace. Having the NYT still announcing their Twitter or Instagram for social media presence is the same as using aol.com for their email.

I don't think it's a huge deal, we'll either know they're legit or not. Care to weigh in @[email protected] ?

You seem to be under the impression that it’s good if this place grows explosively. It’s not. There’s no VC to pay back here (and thank fuckin god for that). There’s no ad revenue here (again, this is good).

Also, not entirely sure what exactly to make of the weirdly targeted quip about a Chinese child, but spidey sense says it’s nothing good.

I'm not here for celebrities and they will always flock to centralized platforms anyways, since they are all about the views.

That's why she hosts her own domain, instead of sending half a million followers to some random fediverse instance.

Those poor celebrities! What will we do without them?

Account verification is relatively simple, if you have your own website you just add a link back with a special formatting. Problem is, barely anyone applies for self-verification, and several platforms such as Lemmy don't support self-verification whatsoever. I can see why something like a distributed verification agency should be a thing, if we manage to make the implementation less technical for the end users of course.

We had a AMA with Will Ropp, an actor a few months ago: https://lemm.ee/post/31335226

[email protected]

We verified it was him by having him send us a message from his IG.

I think it might be kind of nice to be Tom Hanks and have the name [email protected] and just chat and chill.

I have a dream that one day I be part of a platform where one will not be judged by the glamor of their username but by the quality of their discourse.

Reminds me of ICANN fucking up all the domain names.

CocaCola.com CocaCola.new CocaCola.drink Cocacola.world CocaCola.bev

Etc.

Shameful. One thing that might work for the fediverse is federal institutions running their own Mastadon instances on .gov to move away from announcements on Twitter. You can’t fake .gov domains.