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.
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.
That’s not just okay, that’s amazing. Still a super nice feeling getting poo, eh?
Good thing my username is that weird that its free anywhere lol
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