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Cake day: June 1st, 2023

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  • As just one example, if a famous person makes an account, and then a spammer makes an identically-named account, just on another instance, then the famous person’s followers could get confused.

    Tbf, you can basically do this now - throwback to the start of paying for Twitter verification…

    On Mastodon, the simple answer is you use the verification to prove it’s you by using rel=me links.

    It’s not perfect, as you’d expect, but in an age where everything is suspect anyway…




  • Aside from the proprietary bit, there’s also an argument over companies existing for so long also just perpetuating wealth inequality since the same families hoard the wealth that the company generates. I wish I could remember where I saw the argument (I feel like it was probably an article associated with NPR), I found the arguments against allowing companies to reach 100 years old quite compelling.