Why can you never change your username in Mastodon, Lemmy or Peertube? Is it a condition introduced by ActivityPub or a forgotten feature?
Why can you never change your username in Mastodon, Lemmy or Peertube? Is it a condition introduced by ActivityPub or a forgotten feature?
It’s really annoying that the unique identifier is the username and domain instead of an ID. My fiance switched her nationality and therefore her legal name, but there is no way to change it in PeerTube where I made an account for her. OK theoretically we can create a new account and change the ownership of each of her videos but there are hundreds of them.
Man, it seems so alien to me to use anything related to your legal identity as a username online.
I just put everyone’s first name there as the username for the whole family.
I wonder if it’s possible to batch-edit the database to auto-change ownership…
Probably, but I’d need to understand the database schema for it. Don’t really have time for that.