So, it seems like it is possible to have multiple people with the same username, but attached to different instances. Though those people can be federated into one public timeline.
Is that accurate? Like... I could make another account on a different instance with the same username?
@Rasgueado wondering thus myself... I can't possibly be the only Kryten, can I?
@Rasgueado Makes sense... hovering over user names shows full URL, including instance hostname
@Rasgueado Might be interesting to find (build?) a tool to query other instances for display names...
@Kryten I wish I was better at coding to actually contribute, but I'm curious to see what comes out of this community.
@Rasgueado Me too. Looks like #mastodon is written in #ruby, which is outside my comfort zone. I'm a #nodejs developer these days; I'm thinking bot development is more up my alley...
@Kryten ... I barely know what node.js is (and only because I am trying to build things for beam.pro). Kudos to you for being a builder!
@Kryten consensus from a few people seems to think there can be more than one, but you're posting from this particular instance, which you attach a display name to.
I believe this is why they opted for email to be your login as opposed to your display name.