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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[–] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Who manages that centralized service? What prevents it from being bought out, or attacked?

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because it's not centralized. Every platform/instance just uses the same protocols. Any that try to go against that get defederated by all instances.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Any that try to go against that

How do you identify them? Lemm.ee registers Tom Hanks, does every other instance have to check what information they provided to trust them?

What prevents someone to bribe a small instance to register a celebrity username on their instance?

[–] abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us 1 points 2 months ago

If anything we want to encourage this.

I like the example of SAG AFTRA hosting their own instance to be official, for example. Celebs typically have their own domains and websites, so easy enough to hire a team to create and manage their own instance that supports the celeb but federates. And you know it's legit just because it's on the celeb's own domain. Ditto for gov't agencies having their own instances.