evan, 2 months ago

@dansup @loops so, the immediately obvious way to do this is to make sure the username isn't in the actor ID or any object IDs. Then, you can set whatever you want as the preferredUsername, and changing it won't change the ID for the actor. I think the only problem is that some systems, like Mastodon, favour the Webfinger ID over the actor ID.

We're talking about this at the CG: https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-webfinger/issues/10

evan, 2 months ago

@dansup @loops /cc @trwnh

stefan, 2 months ago

@dansup @loops very huge! Thanks for all the hard work!

samxavia, 2 months ago

@dansup Amazing, especially sharing how you can do it without breaking everything.

stefan, 2 months ago

@dansup @loops Nice!

This was the main reason I started my own Mastodon server, because I couldn't change my username when I went to give Mastodon another try after Musk bought Twitter.

I guess it worked out in the end, I'm glad I have that experience, and the freedom. Still, definitely a great feature to have available.

dansup, 2 months ago

@stefan @loops Yeah this is something we're working on in Pixelfed too!

It's a bit more tricky with PF because object ids contain the username, but with Loops we can launch with this support!