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It doesn't matter if an instance wants their instance to be "the" instance for a community, they don't get to decide that for the whole Fediverse. It's up to the users.
Usernames should be interpreted in the same context as email address. I am FaceDeer@kbin.social, the "@kbin.social" part is as much a part of my username as the "FaceDeer" part.
The UI should probably be displaying it more prominently than it is, that's a bug that Kbin should resolve at some point.
You're right, but the current tradition and momentum are towards using short display names; virtually every service that has a public-facing feature uses display names (even most email clients put the first and last name of the users instead of their actual email addresses).
We definitely should be using the full bit on kbin/lemmy, though, as it's so critical to the idea of the Fediverse, you're 100% correct on that.
The current tradition may simply have to change when it comes to the Fediverse, because the Fediverse doesn't work that way. It can't work that way because instances are independent of each other. There's no central authority that can decide which one gets to have the "startrek" community name or the "FaceDeer" username.
If you want there to be a central authority to decide that stuff, then you don't want the Fediverse.