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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 10 points 5 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 3 points 5 months ago

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

[–] ademir@lemmy.eco.br 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

it is the chance for mahmoudk1001 to show his value!

[–] mahmoudk1000@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 months ago

Seems so unfortunately ;)

[–] activistPnk 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I recently read a complaint about the opposite. Someone deleted their Proton account and their handle was made available 1 year later. They were rightfully angry because the next user would potentially start receiving mail from things like the original user’s bank. The new user could perform password resets on accounts where the original user had not yet changed the email address on file.

[–] mahmoudk1000@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 months ago

Holy shit. Now that you put it into in an example. I really felt it. That great feature. I suppose, that I can survive using new handler knowing this :)

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

I am really surprised at that from Proton. They of all organizations should be better than that.

[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

That's not a bug, it's a feature. ™️

[–] mahmoudk1000@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 months ago

Yes indeed, but at the beginning, I thought it was not.

[–] ademir@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 5 months ago

this but not ironic.