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With an new beginning come NEW USERNAMES (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by operator@kbin.social to c/fediverse@kbin.social

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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.

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[–] cyberian_khatru@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

My username is usually available everywhere and I'm content with it, but I'm happy for you guys

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[–] Hyacathusarullistad@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Did you ever wanna have a username but it was taken?

Hasn't happened yet, nope.

[–] atocci@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I'm glad to have gotten my username on most services. Wish I could get it on Xbox Live though.

[–] uprise42@karab.in 1 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Hi,

Transitioning user from reddit here. I think I am having more difficulty picking up on this fediverse thing than I should be. I am on karab.in kbin instance, but not able to see anything outside of kbin. It is actually tough to see anything on kbin even to set up my feed. Any time i search the bar at the top I get a 500 server error. Right now I am only able to look at the trending magazines and when I sort that by active it only gives me ones with 1 or 2 subs and no content. It is making it really tough to migrate from reddit. Am I missing a step? Is there an issue with the search feature currently? I know this probably isn't the right place to post this, but I can't even search for the right place.

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[–] jinno@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I have this same 5 character name most places. Except for Twitter and Instagram. The jerks.

So, no, not really.

[–] manwe@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I’m the king of the Valar, so that’s pretty cool 😄

[–] boldiegoldie@vlemmy.net 1 points 1 year ago

Good thing my username is that weird that its free anywhere lol

[–] Lemmington@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not very creative, I cycled reddit accounts every few years and just had '(word)reddit(year)' or some other permutation of that format. I guess this name is a little bit better

[–] Aio@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Yup, Aio is a really difficult name to get on older social media places. So getting it here really made me happy!

[–] Otome-chan@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

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).

[–] sdcSpade@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

The sdc-prefix doesn't mean anything to me anymore but after all these years, I feel naked without it.

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