It’s a whole new universe.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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).

Tell me about it!

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

Eat more green food

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

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