It's a whole new universe.
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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?
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.
Tell me about it!
You could have been Danny69 though. So close to greatness.
Damn! Maybe next time!
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
They told me I could become anything so I became a bee
username checks out
i love seeing people follow their dreams
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).
Yup, Aio is a really difficult name to get on older social media places. So getting it here really made me happy!
Eat more green food
I’m the king of the Valar, so that’s pretty cool 😄
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.
The sdc-prefix doesn't mean anything to me anymore but after all these years, I feel naked without it.
I got root
You are root.
Oh my.... why didn't i think of this :D
Oh my.... why didn't i think of this :D
See if sudo is available.
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.
Kbin and other instances are pretty much overwhelmed with the rapid rise in users. Kbin is still in beta, mobile app in development but @ernest is doing an amazing job here at kbin.social. Give the whole space a little time and things will improve.
I found myself with the same issues, just use it for a bit, lurk in magazines and you'll get the gist.
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??
And with multiple domains, if it's taken one place it might not be another.
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 ^^
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.
Mom says its my turn on the account naming scheme!
username checks out
Cheese was already taken 😭
My username is usually available everywhere and I'm content with it, but I'm happy for you guys
I would never have been able to be just Gabe on reddit. It's nice.
This was the name I was trying to sign up for reddit with years ago, but there was a 9yr+ old unused account squatting on it, forcing me to 1337 mine up. It is nice.