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@ClearlyClaire Concerning the rising popularity of Kbin and Lemmy. I was wondering if the Groups tab can also list subscribed Kbin magazines and Lemmy communities? Without any moderation and voting...

@ClearlyClaire But it's also not supported using :keywords: or is that using also emojimart? If so, than [this issue](https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/18610) is maybe related. Thanks for looking into it.

> Yes, the shortcodes also come from emojiMart. OK, than both issues are related to this emojiMart fork I assume.

@mashirozx Because people don't want to refer to their old name / deadname.

@mashirozx People want to be able to refer to old content. So they still need to mention the old account. And still they are forced to make this somehow work...

@ThibG Why not use the public key in the account table as a unique identifier? Or create one. I'm not a developer, I just try to make this huge problem...

I appreciate your explanation @ThibG. But isn't it a fact that how longer we wait with adding those new extra identifiers, how longer it takes that usernames can be changed?...

@ThibG But why not using two identifiers for the time being?

> @jeroenpraat because there can only be one! Every object has exactly one identifier, that is supposed to be unique and not change. There's only place for one, and if...

I'm not going into any technical details, because I'm simply not a programmer. I know my place. :wink: The only thing I want to add is: **_Where there is a...