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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    2 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?

    • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      It doesn’t matter if it’s a post of Taylor Swift or someone from /r/wallstreetbets convincing the mob to short RDDT and to move to Lemmy, we are talking about any random scenario that manages to get 300k people interested in Lemmy.

        • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          Nah, there is no more concerted effort from the mods to get people out of Reddit. The mods that still wanted to take action were kicked out, the others that remained are too afraid to lose their “power mod” status or were appointed by Reddit itself to take charge.

          it will take some other new event to take place for people to get mobilized again. Reddit won that battle.

          • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            Have the apps API access been officially restored?

            Though, to be fair, we might see another influx the day the private API keys stop working, or Reddit isn’t compatible with them anymore. I see a lot of people using those to still be able to access Reddit through their preferred app

            • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
              2·
              2 months ago

              Have the apps API access been officially restored?

              No, they won’t be and the majority of people didn’t care. Which is kind of my point?

              private API keys stop working

              That will not happen. If they kill the API for good and do the same thing that happened at Twitter, all the bots from Reddit are going to disappear and it’s going to cause a hit on Reddit traffic.

              The number of people who cared enough about third-party apps is not enough to affect their bottom line, so as long as they managed to get (say, 80% of the Apollo/Sync/Infinity users into the official client is enough)

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      I’m actually flattered that I have this… reputation on Lemmy lol.

      Personally, I don’t care if celebrities come and join, even Taylor. Honestly that’s one of the reasons I’m okay with threads starting to federate, I see celebrities joining there and then we can sub from our instances. Best of both worlds imo.