this post was submitted on 29 Feb 2024
58 points (90.3% liked)

Ask Lemmy

26968 readers
1234 users here now

A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions

Please don't post about US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world


Rules: (interactive)


1) Be nice and; have funDoxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them


2) All posts must end with a '?'This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?


3) No spamPlease do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.


4) NSFW is okay, within reasonJust remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either !asklemmyafterdark@lemmy.world or !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com. NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].


5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions. If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.


Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.

Partnered Communities:

Tech Support

No Stupid Questions

You Should Know

Reddit

Jokes

Ask Ouija


Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

For a while I was using the same username for everything, but recently I've been trying to mix it up.

Context: Currently picking my new username for Signal and I'm not sure what to put. I don't want spam, and I use Signal for privacy, but I could also do something nice. First name? Randomly generated?

(page 2) 19 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Auk@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago

For the last while I've been randomising the dictionary of 3 or 4 character words and running down the list until I find something I like the sound of and is available. If it's a well populated username base I might need to drop back to a list of all permutations of a-z in that length and do the same.

[–] FlembleFabber@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

Just kind of random gibberish

[–] force@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

i put in all the brainpower i can muster and think for about 2 hours before just choosing a random roman god/dess or something stupid that i think sounds cool or has to do with something i like, because i can't think of anything original. like if i had to make one right now it'd probably be uhhh superfluidhydrabreath

if i were queer enough i'd probably change that to supergenderfluid, but i'm not

games like stellaris are the most challenging to me solely because they require you to make up a lot of names, and i don't wanna use the auto generated names because that's stupid and for cowards. often times i spend more time making up names or designing my characters than i do playing the game the day i start

It just sort of came to me

[–] DevastatedBungHole@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Something bad had just happened to me

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Or something great

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I had no idea and translated that to Swahili.

[–] fiddlesticks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago

Whatever came to mind first

[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Not sure how I picked this one it was the name for a throwaway account I forgot about for like 10 years. Nowadays I like the randomly generated ones that are like random adjective with a random animal noun. Like AngryRaccoon or UglyBear

[–] Bonehead@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Was called it a lot as a kid, I took it and made it my own. Now it let's me know who to block when someone has literally nothing left to their argument that they have to resort to using my username as an insult.

[–] Amanduh@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Do you block someone if they say "hey bonehead what's up?"

[–] Bonehead@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago

Only if it was meant as an insult. Usually there has to be several comments trying to argue with me before the insults come out. I appreciate when people ask how I'm doing in a non-confrontational way. I'd assume that statement wasn't meant as an insult, but I've been wrong before.

load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›