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Re:'I want your Instagram account': a deadly campaign over c... by egypturnash on Sunday July 17, 2022 @08:32PM (#32133123)
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.

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Re:'I want your Instagram account': a deadly campaign over c... by nl on Sunday July 17, 2022 @08:50PM (#32133252)
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...

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Re:'I want your Instagram account': a deadly campaign over c... by egypturnash on Sunday July 17, 2022 @10:54PM (#32134063)
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.
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Re:'I want your Instagram account': a deadly campaign over c... by hammyhavoc on Sunday July 17, 2022 @08:44PM (#32133216)
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.
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Re:'I want your Instagram account': a deadly campaign over c... by egypturnash on Sunday July 17, 2022 @10:52PM (#32134044)
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.

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