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...
In a transcript of the call seen by Reuters, Wang Laichun said the tariffs would have little impact on profits and revenue, as Luxshare exported only a small amount of finished products to the United States.
And doesn't that just explain the reason why manufacturing jobs are not going to return to the US.
Until Trump ignores court orders and cuts funding anyway.
Supreme Court will probably rule that while congress has the power of the purse, the president has the power of canceling the credit cards in the wallet, because fuck you that's why
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.
Oh this was a deliberate upgrade - they just didn't bother to ask/check if it was ok to just spontaneously do... 😞