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public service announcement: if you change your username from bsky​.social (e.g. @amk.bsky.social) to a custom domain (e.g. @april.social), please be aware that your original username will be returned to the pool and someone else can claim it.

I’m not sure this will be too overly big a problem. Bsky Social, even if considered a namespace (it’s just a federated server) will become the Gmail address of the Internet. People’s unique handles will be tied to the complete address used to identify themselves. Also the at mentions all update.

okay sure but if I use @amk.bsky.social for years, cultivate a million followers and then move my handle, all the references to my handle that are all over the place are now wrong. it matters less when it's new, but makes it hard to change handles as the system grows.