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this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2023
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I’m the king of the Valar, so that’s pretty cool 😄
Cheese was already taken 😭
Mom says its my turn on the account naming scheme!
username checks out
I would never have been able to be just Gabe on reddit. It's nice.
Early adopter of a particular instance? Sure.
Someone can still grab the same name and post from another instance.
They told me I could become anything so I became a bee
i love seeing people follow their dreams
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 [email protected] but someone else has [email protected]. I think there are probably some super autistic people that might grab their nicks on every big server currently lol
lol probably. but i found my main community here i can still interact with all the others. So why even care ^^
My username is usually available everywhere and I'm content with it, but I'm happy for you guys
And with multiple domains, if it's taken one place it might not be another.
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 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!
The sdc-prefix doesn't mean anything to me anymore but after all these years, I feel naked without it.
I didn't even think, I just used the same as my reddit one.
Which is fine, I have 99 on everything else, being just gk would be weird.