I’m satisfied with mine and I use it everywhere. How about you?

  • Stern@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Fine by me. It’s disconnected from prior usernames except in one case, which I prefer.

    • MagicShel@programming.dev
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      11 months ago

      Every few years I change up. I don’t like too much info about me being discoverable. I’m very uncensored online and if I had a bunch of people paying attention or especially able to link it to my real world identity I would be very uncomfortable being who I am.

      One time my Reddit name matched my FetLife name and I managed to piss someone off who went through my post history and I quickly recognized my vulnerability. So no more of that shit.

  • JustARegularNerd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Don’t know if you’ll see a lot of “no” replies, because I imagine if you’re not happy with your username, you would’ve already done something by now like a new account.

    I chose my username when I was a teenager and just kept with it since. The original meaning was that I’m a nerd, with both good and bad traits. It was also chosen with aspirations of being a YouTuber in mind and having something unique.

    That being said, as I’ve matured I like to think that while I am a computer nerd, there’s more to me than that single trait, so it may change in the future.

  • CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    I used to try taking Basculin as much as I could as jt was my first shiny pokemon, but on a lot of occasions the name got slipped from me by Pokemon fans. So I took CaptainBasculin. No complaints so far.

  • Harvey656@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    People that pronounce the 656 in my name: six hundred and fifty six drive me nuts.

    Jokes aside I’ve had this username for around two decades, honestly it just sorta was the only thing that stuck with my 10 year old brain.

    Edit: forgot to mention runescape, that’s where this started.

  • nocturne@sopuli.xyz
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    11 months ago

    I am fine with it, I have been using nocturne on the Internet since 93. Although I hate having to use a number at the end of it. When I joined sopuli I decided to replace the c with a k, since the instance is Finnish and I wanted the name to appear more Finnish. But I do not care for how it looks with the k.

    • clif@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      You just have me a flashback to a game named Nocturne from the late 90s. I didn’t remember anything about it, but I recall enjoying it.

      I haven’t thought of that in at least 20 years.

  • Vanth@reddthat.comEnglish
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    11 months ago

    It’s fine. I don’t prioritize personally-relevant usernames. Using the same username across multiple platforms just makes it easier for data brokers and stalkers to make connections. Most of my usernames are the result of 20 seconds of thought related to some piece of media I have been consuming.

    When I picked this one, I was reading about psychopomps in various cultures. This figure was one I hadn’t read about before and I figured it would make for a nice, unique handle.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Using the same username across multiple platforms just makes it easier for data brokers and stalkers to make connections.

      I often get mine by using a FIPS-181-compliant pronounceable password generator, apg.

      $ apg -n8
cepKopBic
emEsugJi
mygpheaj
godPond8
DytekHubNi
chamhopp
CoHuotsyo
NupajHeOv

      On the Threadiverse, though, since the namespace was so unpopulated, figured, “eh, what the heck, be nice to have a short one”. Might rotate it at some point; I did go through a number on Reddit.