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."

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juniper 3 points 3 years ago

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

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JohnSmith 3 points 3 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.

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JohnSmith 3 points 3 years ago

Indeed!

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s6original 3 points 3 years ago

Steve and Ed are heading over there now.

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david 1 point 3 years ago

Good old Steve. Good old Ed.

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Mjb 3 points 3 years ago

Who's David???

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david 2 points 3 years ago

Me!

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harry 3 points 3 years ago

based

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fyrd 2 points 3 years ago

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

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papertowels 3 points 3 years ago

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

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victor 1 point 3 years ago

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.

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fyrd 2 points 3 years ago

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

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scrchngwsl 2 points 3 years ago

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

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apathytomorrow 3 points 3 years ago

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