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 need to adjust your thinking a tad. The instances are all separate servers / websites that have agreed to talk in a certain way, that happen to use identical software. So it’s like going to Amazon and creating an account and then going to Imgur and creating an account. No one cares that there are two identical usernames as it’s two entirely separate databases.
Where it gets more relevant to Lemmy is that your username has @instance.abc after it.
While this is absolutely true, the more accurate analogy is with email.
[email protected] and [email protected] can still communicate, send emails to eachother, etc. Even if it’s the same person operating the keyboard. Separate platforms, common protocol.
Yeah I get that, now the question is if I can delete my account in “X” instance and then create it again with the same username.
The op is trying to ask if deleting an account free’s up that account name again, so that a new account with the same name can be created.
Unfortunately I don’t know the answer to this but you could just test it out with a throwaway account.
I think this is what OP is asking. After a bit of searching, I found this post from the other day, which says that the usernames do not become available
https://lemmy.world/post/62889
Though maybe this is a server setting and varies between instances? (Also, I don’t know if that is the “correct” way to link to another Lemmy post, so apologies if that is wrong)
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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.
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But if I delete my username from secondary instance I can recreate it with the same username?
