Hi! I messed up my username at signup and its be bothering me a long time now. I would like my username to be SmokeyDope instead of the current Smokeydope.

I don’t believe theres any way to change the username on my side. I can change how it displays locally on Voyager but thats not really the same thing.

Is there anything that can be done about this easily on the admin side? Its not a big deal and im worried it could require resetting my post and comment numbers.

  • asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev
    11·
    10 months ago

    Smokeydope is your username. That can’t be changed due to how federation works. But your display name is SmokeyDope. Display names can be changed to anything as much as you want.

    • SmokeyDopeOPEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      thanks for the reply blaze. It seems changing display name did more than I thought. However on my voyager app and on the URL to my Lemmy page it still shows Smokeydope

  • kersploosh@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    10 months ago

    Your account name cannot change, but you can make your display name whatever you want. Though various apps/UIs may only show one or the other. My app shows “Smokeydope” as the author of this post, but shows “SmokeyDope” when viewing your profile.

    • Draconic NEO
      1·
      10 months ago

      What would happen hypothetically if one were to alter the capitalization in the database? Is activitypub case sensitive or would it be treated the same by other servers?

        • Draconic NEO
          1·
          10 months ago

          That’s good to know, it makes sense that they wouldn’t be. Does this mean that @[email protected]’s Name capitalization could be changed? It wouldn’t affect the other servers who already know him but it would make all new servers who learn of him have the correct capitalization.

          • kersplooshA
            3·
            10 months ago

            I will add the caveat that I would be very hesitant to try it without some careful research, and testing it on a dummy account. You never know what might break.

            • Draconic NEO
              1·
              10 months ago

              Makes sense, it’s one thing to do it in theory, another to do it in practice.