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.

  • BlazeEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I am the OG Blaze, this account is listed on my other’s bio: https://sopuli.xyz/u/Blaze

    I keep a few accounts active at the same time to be able to have different feeds. This one is for meta discussions about the Fediverse, the sopuli one is for general interest, lemmy.zip for tech interest.

    Kind of a workaround around the lack of multicommunities