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.
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).
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.
They told me I could become anything so I became a bee
i love seeing people follow their dreams
I’m the king of the Valar, so that’s pretty cool 😄
Eat more green food
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
lol probably. but i found my main community here i can still interact with all the others. So why even care ^^
I would never have been able to be just Gabe on reddit. It’s nice.
And with multiple domains, if it’s taken one place it might not be another.
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!
I got 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.
You are root.
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??
Cheese was already taken 😭
My username is usually available everywhere and I’m content with it, but I’m happy for you guys
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.
The sdc-prefix doesn’t mean anything to me anymore but after all these years, I feel naked without it.
