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)@feddit.orgEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Aside for @blaze@feddit.org: see what I mean about Fedi’s anti-growth and reactionary culture? Our friend here is not an isolated case

      It’s more against having celebrities and their followers coming here en masse, which I get.

      I’ve still seen a few comments mentioning “organic grow” which seems indeed healthier

        • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgEnglish
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          8 months ago

          The other night 337K people all registered to vote, simply because Taylor Swift sent one message on instagram.

          That’s the example used by OP to make their point. Just from a technical perspective, how are instances supposed to handle 300k new users overnight?

          To come back to your usual argument, do you expect those hundreds of thousands of new users to get a Communick subscription? Or to even support the hosting costs of the instances they would use?

            • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgEnglish
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              8 months ago

              In that scenario, let’s say for some reason Taylor Swift really wants to give Lemmy a try for whatever reason.

              Her advisors have a look around, see the userbase, and conclude it’s not worth the hassle compared to the millions of people they can reach out on Twitter, Facebook and Reddit.

              Taylor Swift’s team doesn’t even manage her own forum, why would they want to go through the hassle of setting up a Lemmy instance?

              The scenario described by OP is “Taylor Swift posts about the Fediverse”, but why would she care about it in the first place?

              Pinging @scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech as they are a Taylor Swift expert. Scrubbles, do you have any opinion on this discussion?