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Seriously, what's up with big sites literally dying as we speak? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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First all the bs with Twitter and Elon, then Reddit having an exodus to Lemmy (not complaining lol), then Twitch. Are we like, in an alternate self healing dimension or something?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I feel like if discord just did a better job of explaining it, then there wouldn't be any problem. I've heard it's a problem for content creators as well because they could remain semi anonymous by being pewdiepie#6381 but now they have to be @pewdiepie and actively claim that or else it sells on markets for thousands. That's another problem, now username sellers will be a thing, when they weren't before. Personally I'm kind of upset by this change. If it was about the weird ASCII characters people have in their names, why not restrict it. Most people don't have them so they would be unaffected.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Me too. It also contributes to the inevitable crisis of username unavailability over the years. With the # discriminator you didn't have to worry about running out of your unique username. And it also helps future generations long after we're all gone from this planet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is the issue I don't understand. I mean, I get your point. But when you can set your display name to whatever you like on servers anyway, what does it matter what your handle is? I don't think having 1 million Johns with different discriminators is any better than having @john through @john1000000.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Because the name john shows up in your friends list. Just john. Not john8576. Yes the hashtag discriminates it and makes it the primary key, but it isn't shown. Yes you're technically john#8576, but nobody sees that part. You're just john.