Vissso usernames are only unique per instance on mastodon.
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sooo.. thats gonna be interesting.
cuz you can just stand up your own instance, join it to the federated server and ... be someone else?
WAIT
CAN YOU NICK COLLIDE LIKE BACK ON IRC?!
Thracky Spackoid@Viss nope they get referenced as @user@someinstancedomain when they're on a remote instance
@Viss However you won't see that directly from the UI when reading a toot. You'll only notice it when actually replying to that person or trying to view their profile etc.
@Viss case in point, I am on an instance that is remote to you :grinning: