Account-name, channel-name, confusion and clarification
What is the problem you are facing?
A problem I had and more people have when creating an account on Funkwhale is that it's not easy to know that the account name is not same as channel-name. When creating an account I used my artist name thinking that I could directly upload there my songs, but then I realized that I had to create another channel name for that, but the name was caught (by me).
Proposals
Change name managing
It may be possible to change how account, channel... names are managed, to separate somehow the names caught on account/user-names from channel-names; then the explained problem would be avoided
Warning when creating account
Another solution is to put a warning while creating an account to inform the user that the account they're creating is not same as channel/artist page, and that then, they should take that into account when choosing the account-name.
What are the possible drawbacks or issues with the requested changes?
Changing the name managing would be a great problem because it should change all the structure of Funkwhale. The other proposal has no drawbacks.