Because let’s say you’re Tom Hanks. And you get [email protected]

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

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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    2 months ago

    If I was making my living off of my name, I wouldn’t even know some random user with no followers from a troll domain exists.

    Whatever the reason celebs don’t take to the fediverse, this isn’t it…