Does a username go into a black hole if someone using it deletes their account?
Is it possible to get back a username of the account I deleted?
Submitted 3 days ago by MagneticElectron@discuss.tchncs.de to main@sh.itjust.works
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Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Pika@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
I was always under the understanding that an account deletion deletes information, I would have thought they could just recreate the user. But I could be mistaken
otter@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
It might cause federation issues down the road, especially with interactions between different platforms
taladar@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
That is probably intentionally prevented by just soft-deleting the user so links from comments, posts,… to their author aren’t lost. Not to mention potential security issues if you could just make a user that previously belonged to someone else. Honestly just isn’t worth the headache to allow reuse of usernames.
horse_tranquilizers@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
MagneticElectron@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
@TheDude@TheDude@sh.itjust.works need your input on that.
scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Would probably need to message the admin of the instance