Fediverse

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 just wish I would have given myself a capital J. Oh well.

Mom says its my turn on the account naming scheme!

Cheese was already taken 😭

am sour ._.

I got root

Tell me about it!

I fucked up and used the same name

I would never have been able to be just Gabe on reddit. It's nice.

Early adopter of a particular instance? Sure.
Someone can still grab the same name and post from another instance.

They told me I could become anything so I became a bee

And with multiple domains, if it's taken one place it might not be another.

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 got to be mishamouse instead of mishamau5, so i don’t have to look like i’m stuck in my dubstep/leetspeak phase anymore.

it's so nice getting to just be ivy
it's my name and it's so gosh darn nice seeing and hearing it used

Finally no dashes or underscores!

Eat more green food

This is my preferred username. My reddit name is similar, but not the same, because this was taken there.

That has admittedly been my petty joy in jumping ship. Sparkly new, like untrodden snow.

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

It's a whole new universe.

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!

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.

I like just getting to try on a new identity. Didn't need to go for a short/common word name. I wanted something different than what I was using before. This fits.