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.
It’s a whole new universe.
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.
Eat more green food
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.
Nice! Yes, a fresh beginning i nice. No ties or links to other online identities
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?
it’s so nice getting to just be ivy
it’s my name and it’s so gosh darn nice seeing and hearing it usedNice to meet you ivy. Don’t you want to separate your real identity from your online one? Curious on your thoughts
Sounds like Ivy gets deadnamed irl, so it makes sense they’d want to use their actual name on here. Hello, Ivy!
Yup, Aio is a really difficult name to get on older social media places. So getting it here really made me happy!
Early adopter of a particular instance? Sure.
Someone can still grab the same name and post from another instance.Tell me about it!
You could have been Danny69 though. So close to greatness.
Damn! Maybe next time!
Did you ever wanna have a username but it was taken?
Hasn’t happened yet, nope.
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’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
Good thing my username is that weird that its free anywhere lol
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??
I’m the king of the Valar, so that’s pretty cool 😄
