It's a whole new universe.
this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2023
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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
A potential downside is that anything you did on Reddit might be tied to anything you do here. Given enough posts you can eventually dox a person
If you follow protocol, don't reuse your identity and don't link anything back to your old account, it is really, really hard to do so. Someone must really want to dox you in order to do this (writing style, topics of interested, ...).
Assuming we're ignoring IP, email addresses and other identifying factors.
Talking about this, anyone knows of a proper opsec magazine?
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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.
Did you ever wanna have a username but it was taken?
Hasn't happened yet, nope.
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!
That's not just okay, that's amazing. Still a super nice feeling getting poo, eh?
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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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I have this same 5 character name most places. Except for Twitter and Instagram. The jerks.
So, no, not really.
I’m the king of the Valar, so that’s pretty cool 😄
Yup, Aio is a really difficult name to get on older social media places. So getting it here really made me happy!
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 glad to have gotten my username on most services. Wish I could get it on Xbox Live though.
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
The sdc-prefix doesn't mean anything to me anymore but after all these years, I feel naked without it.