Is it possible to get back a username of the account I deleted?

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• scottmeme@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Would probably need to message the admin of the instance

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• Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Does a username go into a black hole if someone using it deletes their account?

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  • Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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

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    • otter@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It might cause federation issues down the road, especially with interactions between different platforms

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    • taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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• horse_tranquilizers@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Use KeyOxide and verify proofs of other platforms you have access too and just prooflink your new account.

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• MagneticElectron@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  @TheDude@TheDude@sh.itjust.works need your input on that.

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