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How did you come up with your username? (mstdn.social)

submitted 7 months ago by InternetIsScary@mstdn.social to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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How did you come up with your username?

I’ll go first, it’s simple, the Internet is literally an open field where anyone can do whatever they want.

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[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 13 points 7 months ago

My old username from reddit and HN was already taken and I couldn't think of anything else I wanted to be called so I just picked some random characters like this:
>>> import random
>>> ''.join([random.choice("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789") for x in range(5)])
'e0qdk'

I have that literally in my kbin profile, but it's not on my reddthat one. (I think I tried to copy it there originally when I set up the account but ran into some issue with Lemmy's UI -- been long enough that I forget what exactly.)