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.

  • Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    112·
    3 months ago

    You’re arguing quantity over quality. I do not care the least for bootstrapped growth at the detriment of the platform. I also do not care about people who idolize and platform hop in order to follow celebrities. I suspect very few will bring with them value beyond increased traffic.

    If you want this, Reddit is still an option available to you.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      44·
      3 months ago

      Right now Lemmy has something like 16K users, and a few hundred instances. Most of which are small instances hosting less than 10 users.

      What I’m suggesting is a few hundred thousand instances, with millions of users, if not billions.

      And I assume the instances would face a point where they need organization. So certain instances start hosting certain types of content.

      So if you personally don’t want to read on home and garden topics, you don’t read those instances. That’s what I’m suggesting. If you want to stick to your small corner of the fediverse, you do that.

      What you’re suggesting is that the fediverse never expand beyond the people you deem worthy of contributing content.

      I tried to give peer-tube a chance. None of my youtube creators are producing content on peer-tube. I gave up when every single instance I found was just linux content.

      With more celebrities bring more content. With more content brings more users. With more users brings more communities, and more niches.

      I’m trying to bring down reddit, and instagram, and youtube, and twitter, and everything else thats considered social media. In its place, social media will default to the fediverse.

      You on the other hand are trying to keep the fediverse from growing.

      • Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        41·
        3 months ago

        You’re right. I see no more intrinsic value in having 1mil users, versus 15k. And nothing you can say is likely to convince me that quantity determines or makes for a valuable platform. We’ve seen the growth mentality and resulting corporate greed destroy numerous platforms already.

        • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          3·
          3 months ago

          Except in this case, there can be no corporate green to destroy the fediverse. They can build and destroy their own instance, and their own communities…but the very nature of the fediverse is that it scales well, and it CAN’T be owned. So growth can only help. Temporarily it may crash the servers with more traffic than it can handle, but more instances and servers will be added, and the userbase will spread out.