How do I reuse the *username* of an acccount *I* perma-deleted a while ago on mastodon.social?

[103sbavert]

Whenever I try to make a new account with said username, it tells me its already taken. But I'm unable to recover it with my email address with the forgot password option.

[StrangeMinds1960]

Not sure what you mean by 'perma-deleted', but I deleted a few accounts recently with 'tootctl accounts delete', and I'm finding that the username is retained in the database but the email address used to sign up is not

[StrangeMinds1960]

Found this snippet online which might help -

It is possible to re-animate the username using tootctl, e.g.:
tootctl accounts create OLDNAME --email EMAIL --reattach

[103sbavert]

I believe this snippet is meant to be used by the instance admins, in this case mastodon.social?

[StrangeMinds1960]

It is, yes

[ThisIsMissEm]

For mastodon.social you'll want to email: staff@mastodon.social requesting account reactivation & be patient.

[103sbavert]

gotcha thanks!