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[โ€“] snek_boi@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[โ€“] Sal@mander.xyz 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I like salamanders. Yours?

[โ€“] leslieriver@fapsi.be 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

i can't tell you the story behind 'leslie' because it's a bit personal, but i always use leslie + some random word :) next time i'll use leslie salamander

[โ€“] Sal@mander.xyz 6 points 2 years ago

That's a good method to come up with unique usernames! Leslie salamander will be a great name ๐Ÿ˜ธ

[โ€“] d1tt0@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago

Itโ€™s my fav Pokรฉmon.

[โ€“] AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago

Reddit automatic username generator.

Seriously.

[โ€“] yogthos@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

mine's a derivative of a Lovecraftian horror

[โ€“] handvat@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

It's Dutch for handle, because this is my online handle. That's really all there is to it.

[โ€“] flbn@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

flbn is shorthand for fleabane, my favorite flower. it's a bit of a shitter and most people would consider it a weed; i've always been fond of the little guys though. i also just happen to think flea and bane are both kinda cool names.

[โ€“] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It's the username Aaron Swartz used when he got got caught downloading data from Elsevier.

[โ€“] dessalines@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[โ€“] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah, it appears in the film "The Internet's Own Boy".

By the way, his username was not "ๆ˜Ž๏ผ๏ผ“ใ€€๏ผฎ๏ผฏ๏ผญ๏ผก๏ผค" but rather my real username gary_host_laptop, so he used it twice I think but in a different way which was "Ghost_laptop", omitting "ary".

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[โ€“] kromonos@fapsi.be 7 points 2 years ago

I must honestly confess that I have absolutely no clue what I was thinking 21 years ago when I thought of the name.

[โ€“] tmpod 7 points 2 years ago

Won't say exactly as it slightly relates to the offline me, but one neat thing about it is that I have it since my brother created a ClubPenguin account for me, back in 2005 hehe

[โ€“] greensand@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's part of an e-mail alias randomly generated by the SimpleLogin service.

According to Wikipedia, it's used as a term for shallow marine sediment that contains noticeable quantities of rounded greenish grains

[โ€“] miguel@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

When I was a kid, I supposed that is the correct way of writing Miguel (my real name) in English ๐Ÿคฃ

[โ€“] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 years ago

An American name generator.

[โ€“] mp3@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I listen to music a lot, and I do like all the stuff related to encoding and decoding multimedia filetypes.

[โ€“] k_o_t@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

conspiracy theory: you and /u/dessalines are the same person ๐Ÿค”

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[โ€“] ClassicallyCommie@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Mine's a dorky parody of Abigail Shapiro (Ben Shapiro's sister)'s youtube channel Classically Abby

[โ€“] sexy_peach@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago

oh lord that channel is so bad. Also they advertised it heavily but it was all downvoted

[โ€“] sooo@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

Itโ€™s an abbreviated version of an old username of mine from when I was 11 or so back in the mid 2000s.

That username was a play on my first name with several extra Oโ€™s lol.

[โ€“] 56_@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

56 is the best number. I have no idea when or why I decided that.

[โ€“] gun@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But your username is 710998587804863451854045647463724949736497978881168458687447040000000000000?

[โ€“] SrEstegosaurio@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago
[โ€“] Forager@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I recently picked up mushroom id as a hobby lol

[โ€“] YourPKIPoster@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

I guess I'm one of the only few Indos here (at best), also this is a lefty forum, hence my name: YourPKIPoster. (PKI being the name of the communist party of which was once used to be legal, but now banned. It's crucial for the left in my country back then.)

[โ€“] IngrownMink4@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Well, my username was automatically generated. When I was playing on my Xbox 360, I created an Xbox Live account to play with my friends. I didn't know what name to make up to be recognized, so I used the name generator they had and adopted it. From then on, I started using IngrownMink4 username as a "universal" username in all my social networks.

[โ€“] SrEstegosaurio@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A few year ago, I needed a cool looking nickname. And... Idk how I ended being a dinosaur.

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[โ€“] lemmy@midwest.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

When I created my instance (midwest.social) I accidentally ran the DB script without changing the name of the admin so it's lemmy and I'm not sure how to fix it. I guess I'll have to do a DB insert of some kind, but my display name is seahorse, which is a play on words of my name in real life. Hint: my nickname in life is CJ.

[โ€“] LIESGREEDMISERY@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

A song from LIVING THINGS, which is a LINKIN PARK's album where everything's written in ALL CAPS. I always feel writing in ALL CAPS is so rude, as if I'm yelling. But if I were to talk about this album, it's an excuse for me to write in ALL CAPS.

But specifically LIES GREED MISERY, because I just like it. Mike Shinoda says it sounds like a party music, back when it has no lyrics. But with the lyrics sung on top of the music, I'd describe the song to be like "It's a party song. Partying while having people choking themselves to death by their lies, swallow up their greed, and suffer all alone in their misery. A fun party"

[โ€“] Echedenyan@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

To know the cute furry community in the Fediverse and taking advantage of my profile picture generated with drawings of David Revoy.

[โ€“] bilb@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

I knew I've seen variants of that avatar around!

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[โ€“] the_tech_beast@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

i like tech and mr.beast. So I combined them together and voila... the_tech_beast ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚

I kept on generating random usernames on Windscribe until I got one I liked. A lot of websites limit the length though, so Developer becomes Dev.

[โ€“] gun@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Usually you make a new account on social media and all the good names are taken. But here, there's only a few thousand users so most are up for grabs.
So I wanted to take advantage of that and choose a really short and simple name like "Jim" or "Bob" cause it becomes sort of prestigious to own that when more usernames are used up.
I remembered on YouTube some accounts were named "bleach" with a picture of bleach as the profile pic, so I tried that. But just by chance, that one was already in use here. Eventually I came up with a similar idea to be "gun" and I like it better cause its funny

[โ€“] sooo@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Itโ€™s an abbreviated version of an old username of mine from when I was 11 or so back in the mid 2000s.

That username was a play on my first name with several extra Oโ€™s lol.

[โ€“] plu@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

I was looking for an (originally one off) username for online services that I don't particularly want to be outright connected to my real identity, and I don't like making usernames that actually mean things, so I found this adorable sounding little three letter one. It's unsearchable in the web due to being so short and common, but it's surprisingly often still free.

[โ€“] bruhbeans@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I farted onto an autocorrecting keyboard.

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[โ€“] SudoDnfDashY@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

CentOS on my server.

[โ€“] Grace@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Grace. Elle est moi.

[โ€“] stopit@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

My username comes from people who, for what ever reason discourage my opinions...I would hear, "stopit, stopit"...keep repeating anytime I would voice a non-popular opinion or do something that shouldn't effect anyone other than myself...rather than hate it, I decided to reclaim it (like many of my peers do with removed), so I decided to use "stopit" for my username...surprisingly on other sites, it has been already taken :( so much for this old man being original...but I tried and I am "stopit" here. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

****This is an edit...I referenced a derogatory name towards gay people in my post...I am gay, an don't think I used the f word inappropriately, but it got removed, right away (without anyone looking at context). I am not sure how I feel about that right now...but overall I do appreciate this site.

[โ€“] pinknoise@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
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