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My deleted account still reserving my username (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 4 months ago by mahmoudk1000@discuss.tchncs.de to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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As title says. I had an account at lemmy.ml while back and got it deleted. Now I am trying to switch back to Lemmy.ml but during registeration. I get that error, that the user name is taken by user. But it's taken by my deleted account.

My handler is mahmoudk1000, cloud you please free it ? So I can reuse it.

Thanks in advance!

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[–] Nothing4You@programming.dev 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

this is by design. actor ids (unique identifier for accounts) should not be reused due to undefined behavior for how other instances will deal with that.

if you want to have a more technical explanation, https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/reuse-of-identity-channel-addresses-revocation-reissue-of-keys/2888 does a decent job at explaining some of the issues with this.

[–] mahmoudk1000@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 months ago

Ooof, I got it. thanks for the detailed explanation!