Cross-pollinating from Reddit: The system is often broken by design, because social-media companies (e.g. Twitter) have an incentive to break it. Creating artificial scarcity in their name-space is a way to extort/attract users (especially brands and celebrities.)
A truly "fixed" username system means abandoning that "gatekeeper of the one true name" business-model, and decoupling identity from names.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 7.5 ms ] threadA truly "fixed" username system means abandoning that "gatekeeper of the one true name" business-model, and decoupling identity from names.