Username necessary?

  • Arp Laszlo

    (@echoleaf)


    2 years ago

    I try not to publish my username, since it’s an admin account on the site. Is there any way around this?

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  • stedi

    (@stedi)

    Yes, I have the same question.
    I tried ActivityPub plugin and noticed that it uses the admin username.
    Even though I uninstalled the plugin, the user name can be found in search in my Mastodon instance. How to prevent the search result showing admin handle?

    Thread Starter Arp Laszlo

    (@echoleaf)

    My immediate thought is to make an editor account and use that instead. Or make a new admin account and downgrade the current one to editor.

    And then I assume I have to change the author for all posts to the editor account.

    stedi

    (@stedi)

    The editor account trick does not work, tried it.
    But there is an another thread which provides solution

    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/possible-to-create-aliases/

    • This reply was modified 2 years ago by stedi.
    Thread Starter Arp Laszlo

    (@echoleaf)

    So once Webfinger is installed, the nice name will work if it does not have any spaces or special characters?

    Thread Starter Arp Laszlo

    (@echoleaf)

    Actually, I made an author account and it seems to work. I had to edit some posts to change the author to the new account.

    I installed Webfinger and now I am able to search my profile with my nicename. But unfortunately the profile shown includes the unwanted user_login … it would be nice, if this is editable.

    Thread Starter Arp Laszlo

    (@echoleaf)

    Ah – I should try that. The profile link shown is only on our profile edit page, right?

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