• cornbread@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    How do usernames work? Can the same username be claimed multiple times (via registering on multiple instances)?

    • sapetoku@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Technically you only need to register in one instance and can interact across lemmy and kbin instances, but you can register the same username in various instances in case of defederation. Lemm.ee federates with all and all instances federate with it for example, beehaw.org doesn’t allow signups and has defederated lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works.

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      1 year ago

      Yes. Claim 'em all now if that concerns you.

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          1 year ago

          You can have a display name different from your username (just learning all this myself). Then you can use the same account across instances with different display names or vice-versa.

          Love the usenet-ish federation. Now if only we had federated killfiles linked to our accounts. It’d be cool to raise/lower scores privately to bubble things up you care about and kill what you don’t.

          • anlumo@feddit.de
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            1 year ago

            Oh, a feature “people who like the comments you liked also liked these comments:”

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          1 year ago

          Then it’s nothing to worry about.