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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] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Someone pointed it out to me recently the discriminator probably isn't the driver for the change. The real driver is they committed a very dumb mistake originally, with regards to capitalization in usernames.

For example, in Discord the user names Hyperz, HyperZ, hyperz, hyperZ, HYperz, etc... can all be distinct usernames.

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

With the same discriminator? Like Username#1234 and UserName#1234 can both exist? If so, yes that's a rather big flaw.

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

Yep