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.
We had a AMA with Will Ropp, an actor a few months ago: https://lemm.ee/post/31335226
!movies@lemm.ee
We verified it was him by having him send us a message from his IG.
How fun, this should go on a ‘Best of the Fediverse’ type post or something.