Is it possible to get back a username of the account I deleted? (discuss.tchncs.de)

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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Does a username go into a black hole if someone using it deletes their account?

[-] Pika@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

I was always under the understanding that an account deletion deletes information, I would have thought they could just recreate the user. But I could be mistaken

[-] taladar@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

That is probably intentionally prevented by just soft-deleting the user so links from comments, posts,... to their author aren't lost. Not to mention potential security issues if you could just make a user that previously belonged to someone else. Honestly just isn't worth the headache to allow reuse of usernames.

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