Asklemmy

Deeply attached. If anything ever happened to it I'd be completely devastated.

I'd rather not have a recognizable persona online

This name is just the fewest a's i was allowed to register with

whenever a cool name springs to my mind, i add it to a text file. i use that file when i create accounts or game characters and mark names in it i already used.

By the ankle.

It's my real name.

I have been this user name for seventeen years. I'm ADHD and forget friend on platforms. This makes it easy to find me.

I inherited my name from the previous Dread Pirate Roberts...

Not anymore, since it's really valuable to not have fixed identity on the net.

I'm more attached to it then my real name

You can take it from my cold, slippery hands.

Mine is a work of art

I just use my username to express myself until people who don't like me ban me and then choose another to continue being myself.

Pretty attached. My parents picked it.

If I could just be "Bill" everywhere I would but it really only works on the fediverse.

I just use my name.

Not at all. These days I just use random words when I sign up for new services.

I used to have a 'consistent' online identity, but at some point I decided I didn't want others to be able to make connections between them.

I use a new username for every account I sign up to.

Teenage me used the same or a similar username everywhere, but avoided ever mentioning his full real name.

Adult me realizes that this is stupid. Either I want people to recognize me from one place to the next, then I use my real name because why would I not want people from real life to find me too? Or I want to be anonymous, then I use a username no one from anywhere else will recognize, like I do here.

I like it

I have a couple of usernames that I have used - or, more often, used variations of - for quite some time over a range of sites. However, it is not so much that I am attached to them as such. It is more that I can't be arsed to come up with something new each time.

I use it everywhere. Google me. I don't care

My username has pretty much become a nickname even with IRL friends at this point, I don't think it would have settled as solidly if I kept switching it tbh. I am not too worried about doxxing but that is definitely a concern if you're using a single username everywhere.

Well, shite

Enough to have been using it for 15~20 years. I only use it in a few sites though, where I feel like I want some sort of "identity" - otherwise I'll pick something random.

I've grown very attached to my username and see it as part of myself. I like to be recognized by my name, and try to keep it unique. Partly because it's a part of me that I don't get to express often in daily life.
However, I do keep my personas strictly separated from each other. I have one for professional use to ask questions that can be too easily identified with who I am offline, several for throwaway names and this one for social interactions. I don't care too much about the others, but do like to see myself as Thelsim as much as my other self.

Very

Yeah pretty attached. It's just a thing I like using as a synonym for myself

Not very since I had to shorten it from slurpees off the shoulder of Orion.

Very much so! There’s this other person who uses the same name online and whenever I sign up for a new service there’s a chance he’s been there first and I have to resort to an alternative. In my head we have a friendly feud about this but I’m not sure he’s noticed yet

And just like others mentioned, it’s very much become synonymous with my own identity, friends refer to me with it and at times I identify more with the nick than my actual name

Not attached much. I misspelt this username for Yahoo Chat almost 2 decades ago and stuck with it.

I drop usernames without a second thought if it suits me. I use different ones I think up on the fly most of the time. The only one that matters to me is one attached to my development activities in the FOSS community, and I might share opinions using it but primarily I use it to engage in discussion related to development so that people who know me in those circles know who they're talking to.

I learned to enjoy multiple usernames. It's just more fun. Cyclohexane is cool also!

Not at all, use random usernames on every service.

I'd kill to keep it.

Been using this online handle for 30 years now, I'd say pretty attached!

It's a fine username but I'm not overly attached to it.

I use different usernames for different services and try not to use the same one twice. I do tend to follow a "theme" (though how they all relate is a secret) with them but that's about it.

I think that having a "consistent" online identity across different services isn't very safe but I'm sure that's coloured by my own personal experiences. 🤷‍♀️

I'm not too keen on chosing names so I'm happy that I could

I used to have specific usernames I felt attached to, but those depended on what kind of phase I found myself in. Nowadays it's hard for me to come up with a username at all, especially since I don't want to use my real name. But so far I like this username I have now the most.

not at all

I try to vary usernames on high anonymous community. While on some other communities, I go by the same which is more or less attached to my real life persona.