• Gork@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    That’s why I believe that the username crisis is real. Future generations won’t have short usernames and will have to use increasingly longer usernames to have a unique one, or have a Redditesque default [word1][word2][4numbers].

    We might as well just go all out and just have everyone use a UUID with minimal chances of username collision.

    • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz
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      1 year ago

      If you really need to have the same name in many services, it’s going to be really hard or even impossible. Having a nice and short name in one service is possible, because the name of the service adds some extra length to the whole thing. Just think of Lemmy names for example [shortName]@[InstanceName].[something]. The whole thing is actually pretty long, so making that unique is very easy.