Did you ever wanna have a username but it was taken? Us early adopters to the fediverse can now freely choose nice, untaken usernames!
Let that sink in. We have the luxury and freedom to nearly choose any username we want. without having to add unnecessary underscores or numbers.
Thats nice.
Since it’s all based on federated servers I doubt taken usernames will ever become the same problem as on centralized platforms. After all, you can simply register a username taken on one server on another. You could even host your own server and have unlimited new usernames etc.
I’m gonna set up an instance just for my multiple personalities. What could go wrong?
The beauty of the fediverse
I just wish I would have given myself a capital J. Oh well.
lower case first names…ASSEMBLE
CamelCase beating yo ass all day.
Hell yea
Yeah!
MR. FRING?
🫡
Looks better that way, more friendly :)
I forgot my vowels. Oh well
It’s better with a capital J, take my word for it
am sour ._.
Am Blegh
Mom says its my turn on the account naming scheme!
username checks out
I fucked up and used the same name
Cheese was already taken 😭
username checks out
Tell me about it!
You could have been Danny69 though. So close to greatness.
Damn! Maybe next time!
My man!
I got root
You are root.
Oh my… why didn’t i think of this :D
Oh my… why didn’t i think of this :D
See if sudo is available.
They told me I could become anything so I became a bee
i love seeing people follow their dreams
username checks out
I would never have been able to be just Gabe on reddit. It’s nice.
This was the name I was trying to sign up for reddit with years ago, but there was a 9yr+ old unused account squatting on it, forcing me to 1337 mine up. It is nice.
And with multiple domains, if it’s taken one place it might not be another.
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Early adopter of a particular instance? Sure.
Someone can still grab the same name and post from another instance.i got to be mishamouse instead of mishamau5, so i don’t have to look like i’m stuck in my dubstep/leetspeak phase anymore.
What are you implying??
That has admittedly been my petty joy in jumping ship. Sparkly new, like untrodden snow.
I got my ideal name lol.
But I don’t think it matters - a unique username is only special when we’re on a singular centralized server where usernames have to be unique. When a good chunk of the content is being viewed back and forth across many different server instances, everybody is seeing a lot of everyone else’s names with “username@instance-domain”, which kind of is the “unnecessary underscores or numbers” because the host server is what makes our usernames unique.
If anything, our usernames mean even less than they did before, and that’s OK!
I can’t tell you how happy I was that this name hadn’t been taken, I’ve had it in the back of my mind for years for a bit of a giggle and I’m so happy with it.
Hahaha oh my god I love it!
That’s not just okay, that’s amazing. Still a super nice feeling getting
poo, eh?
