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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.

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[-] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 5 days ago

Taylor Swift's Twitter handle is @taylorswift13 and it doesn't seem to be a problem for her.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Because there can only be one taylorswift13.

There aren't multiple instances on twitter.

[-] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 5 days ago

My point is there could be a @taylorswift but it doesn’t matter because people know which account is hers.

[-] m4t@h4.io 1 points 5 days ago

@pruwybn same for drakes instagram (champagnepapi)

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