OP may have made a tactical error asking this on the internet
If it's a long complicated surname you can't go wrong with a short simple first name. I'm gonna throw Sam into the ring, after our lord and saviour Samwise.
On our old WoW guild application form we included:
"Please rank all of the Star Trek captains you know from best to worst"
and then gave them a nice big empty text box to go to town in. Some answered seriously, and exhaustively. Some only knew Kirk, or didn't know any at all. Some chose to go off on a rant about Star Wars being better, or include a joke or tell an anecdote about their relationship to scifi.
Whatever the answer we always learned something about the person and that was a good jumping off point if they got accepted. We did get the occasional humourless "wtf this is stupid" type response but, shockingly, this was rarely the only reason we had for denying such applications.
I happened to notice an ex-Pebble user in my feed asking for Mastodon help, a couple weeks back. Had never heard of it, but I did some digging, found there was a whole group of them wandering around lost and confused, so reached out and welcomed them and offered help. Honestly they're very nice people, it seems like Pebble's whole "thing" was a focus on people being cool to each other so attracted that certain sort of user.
Proud to say I was nominated first post-Pebble member of Pebble club 😎
Sparrow is staying with us this week and she's making it extremely difficult to Lemmy right now
Also been taking quite the interest in my knitting (as well as favourite pastime, leaving soggy bits of carrot all over the floor)
I'm not mad I'm just disappointment.
There is a current initiative to get new mods for communities that are being used, but have inactive mods. Whether that covers any of these and what exactly the criteria are for "inactive", I do not know.
On the bright side, when the same thing happens on Lemmy it's probably just because the software freaked out and didn't federate your post. Totally different! 😅
Love how OP thinks whatever this is is just normal common knowledge and the rest of us are like....erm....
The only reason we can't communicate with Kbin is that Kbin is currently under siege with all the new signups and isn't federating properly. It's a problem from their side too.
Once they can get stable and federate normally the two will be able to communicate just fine, like we were doing before the sudden influx.
Pretty great tbh. The tricky thing with being an early adopter is you kind of have to be the change you want to see, but I'm old enough to feel no shame about just barging into places and starting new threads as needed.
So far started two accounts on two different instances (I like to keep different subjects somewhat separate) and had really cool interactions on both.
Obviously there are a few UX issues, trying to sub to remote communities is kind of a nightmare, but hopefully I've subbed to enough that other people on my instance will find it a bit easier to find them through search.
Somehow genuinely had no idea Gojira were French so, TIL!
Also wtf South Africa.