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!
That’s not a bug, it’s a feature. ™️
Yes indeed, but at the beginning, I thought it was not.
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.
Ooof, I got it. thanks for the detailed explanation!
it is the chance for
mahmoudk1001to show his value!Seems so unfortunately ;)
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.
I am really surprised at that from Proton. They of all organizations should be better than that.
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 :)
