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Would it even be theoretically possible to support renaming usernames on here? :drgnthink__w:

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@volpeon yes but practically no

your unique user id is different from your preferredusername
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@sun @volpeon > but practically no
why?
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@lucy @volpeon inertia, it should have been supported by now but isn't
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@lucy @volpeon @sun Mastodon.

It was done like a year ago on a Pleroma instance and Pleroma can cope with it with some nginx redirects, but it breaks user profiles on Mastodon depending on the version used. On 3.X it resets the post counter I think and on 4.X it keeps the post counter but makes your old posts not visible.
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@phnt @volpeon @lucy gnu social let you do it but it broke everything
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@sun @lucy @volpeon iceshrimp.net can sort of do it in a compatible way with local-local account migrations

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