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.

    • Blaze (he/him)
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      610 months ago

      fooloerrs

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

      • FundMECFS
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        210 months ago

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