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.
You don’t want the fediverse to grow?
It is, it is natural organic growth.
Organic growth is much more manageable and predictable than explosive cancerous growth.
Removed by mod
Not a la Eternal September