• william@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I typed my old Reddit username in at first then said “wait a minute…”, somehow nobody took my simple first name in the first several hundred thousand accounts created!

    • Grimpen@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Usernames only have to be unique on each instance, kind of like email. Even if Lemmy is growing exponentially, not all that growth will be on lemmy.world.