This is definitely a problem of social media IMHO. When you can be @[email protected] by just finding a Fediverse server where nobody's decided to be @ginger yet, or getting someone in your circles with the resources to stand up a server, there's a lot less competition than when there can only be one @ginger on all of Instagram across the entire world.

Someone could still decide that being @[email protected] is Worth Something and start harassing you for having it but it's a lot less likely.

This accomplishing precisely nothing except moving the problem to another layer.

> A man who enlisted his cousin to break into a Cedar Rapids man’s home and order him at gunpoint to transfer an Internet domain was sentenced today to 14 years in federal prison.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndia/pr/social-media-influencer...

It greatly expands the space. If you’re content being @[email protected] then you’re fine. If you insist on being @[email protected] then it’s still a limited resource to be fought over. But you might also be happy with @[email protected] and find that to be available, thanks to the expansion in TLDs.

You're missing the point that you might want @me:yourname.domain, but someone has already registered the domain. Real names aren't unique either. This is why domains frequently change hands for a lot of money.

True, but this greatly expands the name space for people who are content to be an account on someone else’s server.

The name space of domains is also a lot larger now that we have tons of TLDs.