@STORM

It would be hard to implement in a way that works across the Fediverse. You can change your display name easily, but your handle is part of the unique identifier for your account and posts, so changing it would break things on remote instances that use the old handle to locate resources.

However, you can do an account migration - essentially, you make a new account and turn your old one into a static redirect. It's a bit cumbersome, but it does the job, and it's less painful if you're still relatively new and have less investment in the old account. There's a writeup [here](https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/#migration) which you can follow if you want to start this process.

@freemo

@STORM @freemo I read that the handle is only unique to each server—so there can be multiple instances of a handle across the fediverse. That’s because each server is an island unto itself. It was listed as one reason Twitter users were probably slow to adopt Mastodon after its launch.