Deleting the old one isn’t at all required, if that helps. You can use the same names on different instances because they’re known across servers as username@servername.
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2023
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For whatever reason, I couldn’t get deletion to work on sh.it.works either. Not sure if technical problem or by design.
the admin can purge your account
You could always just register somewhere else and keep that one as a backup
i ran into a similar problem a few weeks ago when lemmy.ml went down for a while. I just gave up and moved to lemmy.world.