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public service announcement: if you change your username from bsky​.social (e.g. @amk.bsky.social) to a custom domain (e.g. @april.social), please be aware that your original username will be returned to the pool and someone else can claim it.

Really? Is there a way to reserve both usernames without creating two accounts? That sounds like a problem for impersonation

I think the goal is that there are several big domains not only .bsky.social and that ppl look at the whole domain as the user identity rather than assume mike or tom is the same person across all domains?

Yeah but say you move to workplace domain and want to go back and you don't have it available. There's definitely been discussion here on multiple domains and retention policies.

yeah definitely and makes sense for that use case... lol I posted abt this before, having journalists and professors w secondary pointers from each institution they're associated with as verification of the relationship