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Can't believe I managed to bag the username david!

Tip: join feddit.uk while the good usernames are still spare! Thanks @tom@feddit.uk

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[–] TIN 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is that actually your name though?! Bit weird if you're called Jeff.

[–] david 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] TIN 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] david 1 points 2 years ago

I do NOT need a tray. I could kill you with a thought!

[–] mark 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] addie 6 points 2 years ago

Getting the username that's actually your name? Represent.

[–] clara 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

that's why i joined here too!

[–] david 2 points 2 years ago

All the Clara's I've known in real life have been great.

[–] harry 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] fyrd 3 points 2 years ago

can tom, dick and harry come together to form a sub?

[–] s6original@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Steve and Ed are heading over there now.

[–] david 1 points 2 years ago

Good old Steve. Good old Ed.

[–] Mjb 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] david 2 points 2 years ago
[–] juniper 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Everyone slipping into an identity crisis trying to decide on the perfect username because there are endless options.

[–] JohnSmith 3 points 2 years ago

I have to admit I pondered for a fair while just lurking. When I saw @david@feddit.uk post the answer was obvious.

[–] JohnSmith 3 points 2 years ago
[–] tom 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Happy to get Tom myself even though I could get any username :) Also feel like OG tom from Myspace!

[–] david 7 points 2 years ago

Ten years from now I'll be saying "Yeah, me and @tom go way back to the very early days of feddit.uk. @tom is the OG @tom. He started it all when reddit started to fall. Do you remember reddit back when it was popular? reddit was like feddit and stuff but it wasn't federated at all, just one single giant blob of a corporate website. They decided to put all the third party apps out of business but it put them out of business in the end. The users and mods were like 'don't do this you're gonna kill reddit', but sharks gonna shark. Couldn't help themselves. 'Extract maximum profit at all costs'. Killed the cash cow trying to make it crap diamonds."

[–] apathytomorrow 3 points 2 years ago

Joys of a fresh platform! All the names are available! I remember getting my own name when Gmail launched.

[–] papertowels@lemmy.one 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fwiw you can always set up your own Instance to snag a nifty username.

[–] victor 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do you think it could get chaotic or confusing even if people get used to Fediverse? The concept can be understood but there will be multiple people with the same username from different instances.

[–] fyrd 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

discord survived for years with david#0001, david#0002, etc. I'm sure we'll soldier on

[–] scrchngwsl 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

and email, it is literally the same: david@instance001.world, david@instance002.wtf, etc etc.

[–] josh 2 points 2 years ago
[–] waz 2 points 2 years ago
[–] Hossenfeffer 2 points 2 years ago
[–] HowManyApplesDoIHave 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] david 1 points 2 years ago

Do you have four nice green apples?