I’m playing whack a mole constantly, blocking all these anime subs!

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    Oh no, that terrible anime subs and content. Quick everyone post more fully qualified !links to more of these groups so i can avoid them, there’s only been a few in the thread so far

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          MentalEdge goes on 7 day vacation.

          You: “Hello, police? I think MentalEdge has been kidnapped or murdered. I haven’t seen any anime titties lately!”

          Police: “…what is going on now?”

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          Yeah :D

          It’s a pity not everyone wants me around, but I’m not going anywhere, so complaints are quite pointless.

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            Don’t let them get you down. I feel like everything I post has SOME downvotes. People called me mentally deranged because I made a post in the Fediverse community that what the fediverse needs overall is for celebrities to call the fediverse home, and bring their userbases with them.

            You know how you might see a celebrity say “Follow me at @CelebrityName”. Well right now, that username is universal. They want that same exact username on twitter, on youtube, on instagram. And I suggested that we need to have more of a profile system on the fediverse. So when you register MentalEdge on one fediverse platform, you’re registering the name MentalEdge. Nobody else could have that. And sure, you might be MentalEdge@Lemmy.World, but if someone were to come to Lemmy, and knew who MentalEdge was, they’d just search @MentalEdge. Then the search would find you MentalEdge@Lemmy.World, and maybe you signed up to pixelfed, and it finds that too. Because you’re the only MentalEdge.

            People ignored the concept, and instead said “WE DON’T NEED CELEBRITIES HERE!!! AHHHH OTHER PEOPLE WHO AREN’T US ARE AWFUL!!!”

            But, in kindergarten I had a rough first day of school. Kids made fun of me. And when I came home, my great aunt edna gave me advice that applied 36 years ago, and it applies today.

            “FUCK EM! FUCK THE WHOLE LOT OF EM’! THEY DON’T KNOW SHIT! I BET THEY POOP THE BED EVERYNIGHT!”

            Great advice then, great advice now.

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                And like I replied there, when’s the last time a celebrity gave out their email address? They care more about the username brand that works across all platforms. Their publicist may know where to email them, but for general fans, they just put out a username like @Username. You never see Username@email.domain. And the reason is because it would be too easy to grab a duplicate email and impersonate them. Which was the whole point of the post. Right now I could register Blaze (he/him)@piefed.social and if someone is on an interface that they don’t see which instance you’re home to (such as how I don’t see your home instance right now), I could be you. I could say things you whole heartedly disagree with, and if people thought I was you, they would attribute you to saying such things. Maybe offensive things. Maybe posting offensive or illegal pictures. And now you are credited with having done that, despite never having done that.

                So the risk for a celebrity being cancelled is too high for them to migrate to an unproven platform if they can’t even control their own username. Thus they won’t come, and thus the fediverse as a whole stays small and unknown as a result.

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                  Right now I could register Blaze (he/him)@piefed.social and if someone is on an interface that they don’t see which instance you’re home to (such as how I don’t see your home instance right now), I could be you. I could say things you whole heartedly disagree with, and if people thought I was you, they would attribute you to saying such things. Maybe offensive things. Maybe posting offensive or illegal pictures. And now you are credited with having done that, despite never having done that.

                  I maintain a list of alt accounts in my bio. I don’t care that much about that, if those impersonators (implying they use my profile picture, otherwise it’s just another Blaze, I have two friends called John, they’re not impersonating each other, they’re their own distinct person) get spotted, their accounts will probably get removed, they aren’t mine.

                  But I’m not a celebrity.

                  Should we report @MargotRobbie@lemmy.world and get that account banned?

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                    In 1996 somebody registered Madonna.com. then in 1998 tried to sell her the domain for 2 million dollars. She instead took the guy to court and sued him instead. Then it worked out that she would buy the domain for far cheaper than 2 million.

                    Difference is, especially in 1998, a .com url is all people know. So that particular url is the most important thing on the internet for Madonnas brand in 1998.

                    The fediverse is NOT the most important thing online to Margot Robbie’s brand. Right now, it’s not of any importance, and without a unified username system, it never will be important. Because right now, I would argue in 2024 a brandable username is more important than a .com domain website…but the username has to be consistant, and exclusive.

                    If Margot Robbie was @MargotRobbie on twitter, @TheRealMargotRobbie on instagram, @MargotRobbie1 on pintrest, and @MargotRobbievids on youtube, that would be a real problem for her.

                    So to be told that you can search the fediverse and find @MargotRobbie@Lemmy.World and also @MargotRobbie@Lemm.ee and also @MargotRobbie@Piefed.social and also @MargotRobie@fedia.io and also any other countless combination of instances, some of which may not even exist yet, and only will exist if you kill 1, 3 more pop up.

                    Margot Robbie would look at that and say “I’ll stick with twitter/youtube/instagram/pintrest/tiktok/twitch where I can control my username.”

                    And all the power stays in the wealthys hands.