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Yes another reason people should leave these corporate run media sites.

There's nothing about this campaign that is caused by or made worse by the fact it is a corporate media site.

Names - whether they be DNS names or Instagram handles or trademarks - are valuable.

This is definitely a problem of social media IMHO. When you can be @ginger@some.domain 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 @ginger@prestigious.domain is Worth Something and start harassing you for having it but it's a lot less likely.

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.

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 @ginger@some.domain then you’re fine. If you insist on being @ginger@ginger.com then it’s still a limited resource to be fought over. But you might also be happy with @ginger@ginger.party and find that to be available, thanks to the expansion in TLDs.

I agree that this is terrible and that it is the responsibility of the companies to protect their customers, but theft happens with anything that's valuable. Domain names, email addresses, cars, etc. These can be "decentralized" but it doesn't mean that people wont try to figure out your password or find your keys so that they can steal them.

I would go further and say that all social media should be outright banned, corporate or not

Social media is optional. You don't have to use it. I don't.

But not letting other people send messages over the internet through platforms created for the purpose because you don't like it is a special level of heavy-handed dictating.

You are on it. Right now.

There's a big difference between personal social media like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, etc and topical discussion sites like HN.

I'm sure GP meant the former.

Smoking is optional. Guns are optional. Nukes are optional. Still needs to be regulated. How long before society accepts that damage is being caused by mobile phones and social media?

Building everything on top of collecting Likes/Followers seems to be the issue.

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