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   Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jun-2023 07:03:27 JST Eugen Rochko

   • かき@GNUsocialJP

   Really not a fan of Discord rolling out a new username system. I thought the old one was neat. Now I see my friends having to put up with modified usernames because someone else grabbed theirs first.

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     Wyatt H Knott (whknott@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jun-2023 07:07:28 JST Wyatt H Knott

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     @Gargron Just got mine today. Oddly, no one else seems to want to be Wyatt H Knott.

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     Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jun-2023 07:07:34 JST Eugen Rochko

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     • Farshid Hakimy / فرشید
     • かき@GNUsocialJP
     • yane

     @yane @farshidhakimy The domains in Mastodon's username system are the decentralized equivalent of Discord's number discriminators 🙂

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     yane (yane@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jun-2023 07:07:35 JST yane

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     • Farshid Hakimy / فرشید

     @farshidhakimy @Gargron this lmao

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     Farshid Hakimy / فرشید (farshidhakimy@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jun-2023 07:07:36 JST Farshid Hakimy / فرشید

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     @Gargron moving Mastodon to (old) Discord-style usernames when

     /s

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     Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jun-2023 07:09:17 JST Eugen Rochko

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     • David

     @david It's still rolling out. Some people have old usernames, some new. It hasn't gotten to me yet.

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     David (david@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jun-2023 07:09:18 JST David

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     @Gargron was that just rolled out recently?

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     DJGummikuh (djgummikuh@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jun-2023 07:15:16 JST DJGummikuh

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     @Gargron
     well but the impersionation risk is much lower. By only allowing lowercase letters and numbers it is next to Impossible to create an impersonation account that is basically indistinguishable from the original

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     doomy 🦀 (doomy@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jun-2023 07:54:00 JST doomy 🦀

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     @Gargron no doubt the new system has a lot of benefits. but kind of an exemplary case of overoptimizing a product until theres nothing fun about it anymore.

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     Pyperkub (pyperkub@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jun-2023 08:08:00 JST Pyperkub

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     @Gargron does it also cost $8/month??? ;)

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     ocdtrekkie (ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jun-2023 08:40:27 JST ocdtrekkie

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     @Gargron It boggles the mind this wasn't optional. Why not let people keep their # if they want to?

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     Randy Tayler (randytayler@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jun-2023 09:08:10 JST Randy Tayler

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     @Gargron I actually haaaaate the descriminator thing. Though I guess they could've allowed "#" in usernames as an exception to the alphanumeric limitations, and people could still be "freshprince#2378" if they really wanted...?

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     Datenegassie ❌ (datenegassie@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jun-2023 11:17:38 JST Datenegassie ❌

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     @Gargron Yeah it sucks. The announcement post explaining why they did this was basically:
     "We noticed that [X] is a problem. So we're introducing this new system that only makes said problem worse!"
     repeated for
     "having only 10000 unique IDs per name" (now only 1),
     "other scripts were limited" (now only lowercase alphanum),
     "some people liked to change their name often" (now your last name#id is stored on your profile, maybe forever), and probably more I can't remember.

     If it ain't broke!

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     Harry Davies ✅️ (frozencat@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jun-2023 12:49:29 JST Harry Davies ✅️

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     • David

     @Gargron @david how long until I get it I'm a 2020 account

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     drathir@mastodon.social's status on Wednesday, 07-Jun-2023 14:01:37 JST drathir

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     @Gargron them anyway require use email and phones for registration why them not goes from beginning the sane way and set random uuid per registration and just allow use any kind of visible name tied to uuid ? ppl probably anyway search each other by "private" data there or directly share invitation links...

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     Slade Watkins 🏳️‍🌈 (sladewatkins@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jun-2023 16:12:12 JST Slade Watkins 🏳️‍🌈

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     @Gargron even worse for notable folks—their names are just straight up getting sniped despite Discord assuring them they wouldn’t allow that lol

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     Ruby Rose Weston (rubyrosetheresurrected@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 11:03:10 JST Ruby Rose Weston

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     @Gargron also now there's so many more limitations about what you can put in the username it's so lame