As title says. I had an account at lemmy.ml while back and got it deleted. Now I am trying to switch back to Lemmy.ml but during registeration. I get that error, that the user name is taken by user. But it’s taken by my deleted account.

My handler is mahmoudk1000, cloud you please free it ? So I can reuse it.

Thanks in advance!

  • activistPnk@slrpnk.net
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    5 months ago

    I recently read a complaint about the opposite. Someone deleted their Proton account and their handle was made available 1 year later. They were rightfully angry because the next user would potentially start receiving mail from things like the original user’s bank. The new user could perform password resets on accounts where the original user had not yet changed the email address on file.

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      5 months ago

      Holy shit. Now that you put it into in an example. I really felt it. That great feature. I suppose, that I can survive using new handler knowing this :)

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      5 months ago

      I am really surprised at that from Proton. They of all organizations should be better than that.