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I think that makes a lot of sense. Reddit was also like that, I moderate /r/me_irl, rival of /r/meirl. But now you can also use the same names if you want.
What about usernames though? Are they universal throughout Lemmy?
Usernames are only universal in the same way an email address is. Any instance can have an @citizenpremier but only you can be @[email protected].
I don't mean to be a douche about it but you're still thinking about it in a very corporate-social kind of way. For something to be universal it requires a central point of control, which doesn't exist in the fediverse.