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.
Eat more green food
I didn’t even think, I just used the same as my reddit one.
Which is fine, I have 99 on everything else, being just gk would be weird.
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.
Here’s the downside, your username will be remade on another instance exactly as it is here. Unless you make your username everywhere. So it’s kinda like having bob@gmail.com but someone else has bob@hotmail.com. I think there are probably some super autistic people that might grab their nicks on every big server currently lol
Yeah that’s why you gotta be an original individual.
lol probably. but i found my main community here i can still interact with all the others. So why even care ^^
A potential downside is that anything you did on Reddit might be tied to anything you do here. Given enough posts you can eventually dox a person
If you follow protocol, don’t reuse your identity and don’t link anything back to your old account, it is really, really hard to do so. Someone must really want to dox you in order to do this (writing style, topics of interested, …).
Assuming we’re ignoring IP, email addresses and other identifying factors.
Talking about this, anyone knows of a proper
opsecmagazine?
This is my preferred username. My reddit name is similar, but not the same, because this was taken there.
I actually tried to get my first name but it was already taken on kbin when I joined lol. I ended up using my twitter handle instead (without any numbers and such).
I just wish I would have given myself a capital J. Oh well.
Looks better that way, more friendly :)
I forgot my vowels. Oh well
lower case first names…ASSEMBLE
🫡
Yeah!
CamelCase beating yo ass all day.
Hell yea
MR. FRING?
It’s better with a capital J, take my word for it
Ah, reminds me of being an early adopter on Livejournal. I Have a pretty popular name on there and even recently, every once in a while, someone tries to get access to it/hack it. I no longer use it, and migrated all my entries to dreamwidth, but I’m never giving it up.
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
Cheese was already taken 😭
username checks out
I’m glad to have gotten my username on most services. Wish I could get it on Xbox Live though.
I fucked up and used the same name
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?
And with multiple domains, if it’s taken one place it might not be another.
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Yup, Aio is a really difficult name to get on older social media places. So getting it here really made me happy!
