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!

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 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.

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

Yup, Aio is a really difficult name to get on older social media places. So getting it here really made me happy!

Tell me about it!

They told me I could become anything so I became a bee

Early adopter of a particular instance? Sure.
Someone can still grab the same name and post from another instance.

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 the king of the Valar, so that’s pretty cool 😄

Eat more green food

I got root

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.

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.

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

The sdc-prefix doesn't mean anything to me anymore but after all these years, I feel naked without it.

Cheese was already taken 😭

Mom says its my turn on the account naming scheme!

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 would never have been able to be just Gabe on reddit. It's nice.

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.