you can have accounts on different instances with the same name but they don't have common histories
this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2023
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The op is trying to ask if deleting an account free's up that account name again, so that a new account with the same name can be created.
Unfortunately I don't know the answer to this but you could just test it out with a throwaway account.
You need to adjust your thinking a tad. The instances are all separate servers / websites that have agreed to talk in a certain way, that happen to use identical software. So it's like going to Amazon and creating an account and then going to Imgur and creating an account. No one cares that there are two identical usernames as it's two entirely separate databases.
Where it gets more relevant to Lemmy is that your username has @instance.abc after it.
While this is absolutely true, the more accurate analogy is with email.
Bob@gmail.com and Bob@yahoo.com can still communicate, send emails to eachother, etc. Even if it's the same person operating the keyboard. Separate platforms, common protocol.