This question comes to me because since we cannot hop through instances (AKA transfer from one instance to another your account) I’d like to create an account into another instance, for research purposes, but if this ‘feature’ comes in a near future I’d love to bring my main account to said instance, preferably with the same username and if I have it “mirrored” (same username) I think that’d make it impossible.
From my understanding it should be possible, I think that’s the case with many communities/sites, but I’m not sure here.
I hope I’m being clear.
you can have accounts on different instances with the same name but they don’t have common histories
I know they don’t share such info at all, that’s why I’d like to know if when the time comes (if) and we can move around instances I could move my A one to B one without issues after deleting B account which would have the same username as A.
You can start using the account with the same name on a different instance at any point. You are unable to transfer any history. I have an account called pigglywiggly@lemmy.world as well as this one.
But if I delete my username from secondary instance I can recreate it with the same username?