Why did you choose your username?

I'm using my real name because I was here to virally promote a movie, just like all the other celebrities on reddit before.

It was a very successful promotion.

To play off my instance name.

I'm, uh, a big Korean.

I was hurt by one and haven't healed

It's a family name

I love ninjas and carbonhydrates

I like not being easily identifiable on social media. When I was a kid my parents taught me to not reveal my real name on the internet and nowadays it seems that your real life and internet life should be the same.

mom i'm internet famous

I can't remember

I often expend my creativity elsewhere. 😅

Because I'm not a banana, duh.

Because I want to instill fear

It's been my nickname for over 50 years.

TLC wrote a song about me.

Because I think that summer is too warm

Rocks are cool

Because it’s all I really want to do here.

One of my nicknames growing up was Lil Miss Potatoes. But now I'm a grown up, so I'm Lady Taters.

I’m a simple man.

Ich bin ein Hurensohn

It's an anagram of my real name, 'lcdou 991y9'

Because I make chairs.

I thought it was funny

KeePassXC password gen.

I kept on trying to make an account and it wouldn't let me for some reason.

You know what?

I didn't. It's my IRL nickname. It means 'short circuit' (as in 'easily frustrated'). I'm the opposite of it, I'm the calmest person on this planet. My friends thought it would be funny. (the full word spells 'Kurzschluss')

I still haven't grown the fuck up

Well I'm a very confused person, and I'm surprised at the world around me.

Shork

It’s the name of my favorite Star Ship! USS Defiant

I like pizza, words with four 'z's, and palindromes. So I appended an 'ip' to pizzazz, and here we are!

Corrupt windows nt boot menu circa 2003.. It should have said "last known good configuration"

I just wanted to share an interesting fact about myself.

Old WoW randomly generated name. Stuck with it for years now

Have you seen kiwis? They're adorable!

The bird is alright too I guess

I just run pwgen -c 6 -0 and picket one that I liked most.

I did same thing when I was picking my Wifi home network name (Wahthahv)

I like Moss. I like Bears. There it is!

You'll never guess where I browse the internet from

Step 1: Download https://www.eff.org/files/2016/07/18/eff_large_wordlist.txt

Step 2: run the following in the terminal

shuf -n 20 eff_large_wordlist.txt

Step 3: choose two good looking words from the output

Step 4: smoosh them together with optional underscore or capitalization

Now you have a tasty username worth sharing with friends and family!

My initials if my middle name were Keith

It appeals to the edgelord teenager in me.

I like coffee and I like vectors. I made it in high school and thought I'd be one of those names I regret, but even now I still like it.

Remembering multiple names is too hard. I'll just stick with the one mom gave me

When I joined up, there was much discussion about bots, so I reckoned that I should set the record straight.

I like tea

I grew up in central Flordia in the 80s and 90s. I loved saltwater fishing. Because of this I started to have lots of interactions with pelicans.

After awhile I became kind of close with them, we somehow seemed to communicate, I would spend hours with them, sometimes I would take out the boat and float around the shallows for these huge schools of pompano that would swim around the deep shipping channel then they would come up in the shallows for a few seconds and hit the bait fish really hard, it made them an easy catch and an unbelievably hard fight on ultralight gear.

I would go alone, sometimes with friends, but the one living being that always showed up was the pelican, and in this particular case it was a fishing spot I found near the Skyway bridge in St. Petersburg.

This is where the pelican became my favorite bird, we had some good times together, one bird in that area though new me and followed me around, never bothering me, never once trying to catch my bait that obviously has a hook in it, it seemed to know what was up, I'll never forget those pelicans and especially my buddy who always loved hanging out and getting fat from my catch.

So I carry the name because I love pelicans and the more people see the name maybe just maybe they might think twice before harming one of these magnificent birds or littering which is heavily contributing to their extinction.

I had a T-shirt with a toaster that had flame decals and just the word toast underneath. People kept asking me what it meant, as if there was a secret meaning to warm bread.

My Geometry teacher started calling me this. Still don't know why.

Typo.

I tried and it worked.

it is I

The cat’s nickname. It’s very floofy.

Just some random thing that comes on my mind at the time, i guess.

It was my neopets username in like 2004 lol.

I was a big weeb, and my original name was Nekomaru. As I "grew out" of it, I translated the name back into English, and realized I actually liked it better.

I chose my name as a shortened version of the name I generally use on social media platforms. It's just this one is easier to type and since the account didn't exist I took advantage of being able to use the shorthand.

I became that which I feared the most

Childhood nickname.

Here's a wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreality

TLDR: in our current capitalist and technologically advanced society, we increasingly live in a world where reality and fiction mix, so much so that it's hard to tell what is real or isn't real. They blend into each other. This is hyperreality. Arguably what's real doesn't even matter as much. The 'truth' generated by (social) media is often far more consequential than something as trivial as what actually happened.

For people who like movies, watch Cronenberg's Videodrome or Existenz. That's what 'reality' has become.

It's a reference to human cannibalism. I found it interesting that humans taste similar to pork. I'm just weird like that.

Cogito ergo sum.

If I don't think, I'm DoesNotExist

Because of Russians.

Se got lots of immigrants from Ukraine these two years. One girl started going to our summer camp/all year group (something like Scouts) and started dated my friend. He keeps "dictionary" of mispronounced words.

There is lots of good usernames but "plactagonic relationship" was best at the time (it grew a lot since).

My job involves making donuts.

The Dude abides.

I really don't care.

You can work it out yourself by looking at my instance name.

I like noodles

I had a bottle of maple syrup on my desk and I'm not a very creative person.

Food you want to eat but won't risk your life for

It's a play off Friend of Dorothy.

That is just who I am

I stopped taking my daily interval 💊

I was binge watching the show "Letterkenny" One of their plotlines was about a Ostrich. Allegedly.... Im Australian, No Ostriches, only Emus.

I write an anticapitalist tech blog at theluddite.org

I rather like it.

The first time I tried karaoke, I was a bit intoxicated and worried that, having a common name, another Nick would get confused. My parents worked by full name incorrectly, so, I figured that that would be a great way to differentiate it, not realizing at the time that the name "Nick" itself normally has a "k" in it, making "Nick w/ a K" arguably more confusing. After sobering up, I found the whole concept wonderfully silly and decided to switch to it as my main screen name.

Why not?

Its the same username I had at the other place that shall not be named, until I got permabanned for reasons still unclear to me.

I originally joined via the swimming sub there, looking for recommendations on waterproof music players to use while swimming so I can listen to AC/DC and Motohead etc while swimming laps. I'm a bogan (Australian and New Zealand slang for a person whose speech, clothing, attitude and behaviour are considered unrefined or unsophisticated) and I swim laps every day. Therefore..... waterbogan

I like potatoes.

Way back in the day I wanted my club penguin to be named sparky, but that name was already taken. So club penguin recommended to me sparky678348

What if Carl’s Jr. had a son

Because I wanted to be obscure and mysterious, but if I'd call myself MrMysterious I'd know deep inside that I'm a wanker.

I forgot my password to bitwarden so now I just completely transitioned into a nihilist. Display name is different from username, but basically the same theme.

Agents 0 to 640 were taken.

Coolest shit I’ve ever pulled off happened on a sick day

am sour ..

My favorite song from an artist

To promote razors

Self descriptive.

To paraphrase a longer explanation, I’m a Nintendo fan, I like Mario games, I love the Bowser fights. I wanted some alliteration on that and Bashing came to mind. Played with that and ended with BowserBasher

I like pretty assholes

The name i wanted to use for my email was already taken so i had to come up with something.

It's the name of my youtube and twitch channels.

The name is a bit of a long story using text to speech in Sea of Thieves to annoy another crew. Tried getting to to speak in an irish accent and misspelled "charms" and the way the TTS said "chamrs" was just hilarious. So there we go.

I like boobs.

Out of habit. It was my reddit username for almost a decade and the first thing that came to mind when I made a lemmy account.

Why I originally chose "justlookingfordragon" on reddit: I was looking for fellow Pokémon X/Y players with dragon-type safaris willing to share their codes, but the simplest usernames like "dragon" and "safari" were already taken, and "Imjustlookingforadragontypesafarikthxbai" didn't fit the character limit. I originally didn't even plan to keep the account, so I didn't care that the username was silly and awkward.

"Wolf Link" was a nickname that came later.

There's a character on Adventure Time named AbracaDaniel and I just switched in my name.

I hit randomize in a passphrase generator until it farted out a mental image that made me laugh.

A real life nickname I've had since I was 7. I've just stuck with it for the past 26 years. It actually originated from the Beanie Baby Lizzy. And Izzy is just Lizzy the Lizard without Legs. 🐍

I like popcorn.

Star wars

I have a big dick , I swing it for the glourius five year plans.

Beta as in Beta Pictoris, a cool star.

I lived in Tropical country and iced cool water is the best

No anime.

Well, I'm waiting to drop a standard line that can be deduced from my username, but I still haven't landed a good post to do so...

Also, I wanted it to be disjoint from my former Reddit usernames

I have no fing idea.

Two random nouns

It's the back of my name stuck on the front of my name. Also hope it makes me sound like a knight of the seven kingdoms.

1: Has just three letters. 2: Doesn't really mean anything. 3: I like how it sounds.

I wanted to add "the magnificent" to the end of it but it didn't fit so

Because i'm a monke

It's my real name.

I came up with it when I created my second acc on Reddit; I didn't want to spend time thinking of a username so I just thought of the first two words that described my mood at the time and went with it. It means "melancholic potato", I like how dumb it sounds

BillyWitchDoctor.com work mostly with chicken.

This my first nickname from when I start gaming on line : Star Craft - Broodwar.

Mine was easy

I am a TANK

I just want to have a good time

Randomly generated by another website and I thought it was funny.

I originally chose this as my Minecraft nickname, it's the name of a JavaScript library that I used (https://webpack.js.org)

idk

I'm afraid to say why.

Mine should be obvious.

I’m one of Zaphod’s cousins

I liked Ren and Stimpy when I was a kid first getting on the Internet.

song by a band that fitted with my habit of nuking my PC every couple of weeks, either because I wanted to try a different Linux distro or because I got some kind of Limewire chlamydia

Because squid can fly and it's awesome.

Well. I am a wench. And quite jaded. I wanted to make something I had not really used before, back when I joined the place that shall not be named, and it sort of stuck. I also really love the color green. If it makes you feel any better I am a much happier person today than I was then. Still a wench though. 😈

iron maiden song, a poker hand, and my name has 2 a's.

Because it sounds perverse, slummy/moist, and randomly generated in equal measure.

Because my tiny little arms have been replaced with laser-cannons.

I chose mine because one day I had nothing to do and was super bored, so I just stared at ceiling and blackedout. And mind you I wasn't tired or anything neither did I sleep, I just lost consciousness because I was bored.

In order to rise
From its own ashes
A phoenix
First
Must
Burn.

~Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

For Karl!

Because fewer a's were all taken

Because it's accurate

There was a now deleted YouTube video by OneMinuteGalactica called "Apollo launches his viper funny" where Apollo from the original BSG tries to take off, but the launch tube just goes for miles and miles while the bridge crew and other pilots scramble to figure out what's going on. I thought the reference to it was funny and sounded cool when I was 15ish and it's pretty much stuck

I don't remember my username

I like to smoke dope.

I love dogs

My name is not Tony

It was a randomly generated name in an MMO I used to play.

One needs a username. So I chose one that I have used for a long time, which incidentally I couldn't use on Reddit

Always wanted to be a TIE Pilot...

/Empire did nothing wrong.

FLCL song

That references the name of my programming language I first-learned in my entire life.

It's the name of my pet bird.

I hate myself

I've been using some form of this name for 10 years. It's a part of me now.

b

Not calm.

Not typical.

Full cat.

HISSSSSSSSSSS

My initials are kn, I was 10, and kn10 was taken :p

Don't have the best internet and my favorite video game franchise is Metal Gear.

Gamertag. My new one at that though

Eigengrau's interesting colour

Because 10 year old me didn't know how to spell in japanese.

My username originally was Emerald_Earth, because I saw the old Lemmy.world logo with the Earth (that had green on it, like am emerald). I switched to Emerald when I realized it was available. Short and sweet.

TK is a journalism joke. In that field, placeholder headlines used to commonly be written in as "Headline TK" or "TKTKTK" etc. It comes from back when newspapers were typeset physically before set in lead to be sent to the printer. It is short for To Come. Many editing marks are misspelled on purpose to make them stand out from the final text. "TK" is an unusual pairing of letters, so it stands out.

After one of the best songs from the band King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Fun fact: it's also the favorite song of their bassist!

It's a futurama reference. Meant to be anonymous but ended up getting lucky with a lightsaber gig and am now stuck with the name lol. Only unfortunate part is I wish I'd known which account was going to get lucky lol

Discord nickname that originated from OneShot (the game my icon is from). I chose it like 4 or 5 years ago and it stuck on Discord so I just adopted it to here

It’s an alteration of an older PSN name I used a while back and it has a really nice ring to it.

I'm a nerd. I'm a Natalie. I'm a nerdy Natalie.

Real name is Mitch and am somewhat irritable, so. . .

norbel

It's the truth

A catchphrase of an interestingly math-themed villain in my favorite game, The World Ends With You

In memory of the Apollo app. RIP.

I was trying to call someone an idiot, but I only had a calculator on hand. I also didn't consider talking as an option.

I used to always play Pyro in Team Fortress Classic and would just run around setting people on fire and then running away. It was my only strategy and so I adopted the name.

I had a bad dream

I'm a guy who likes MsDOS

I was hoping to be generic. Also, to add to articles and photos on lemmy, I wanted random photos from users. I don't even care what they are. So far I've seen a beautiful landscape.

I left a shaker cup with some drink mix in there for weeks, totally forgot about it. Now it's a science project

Tanith was one of the goa'uld from Stargate SG-1 which I was a huge fan of as a kid. Back then I was not so good at spelling so I sounded it out and kept adding letters until I found a username that wasn't taken

Deur

I just think they're neat

chu

I like Fallout 2 way too much.

I love reading books

You don't choose your username. Your username chooses you

I'm a Bailey Sarian Fan.

My preferred username was already taken a long time ago. This was meant to be a temporary replacement, but now this is my preferred username.

spider

Old internet nickname, back in the MSN Messenger days.

it's my name in Arabic, translated to English. very creative, i know.

Among us name generator

I used the same moronic username I got from a name generator for 20 years before Reddit was trashed. I took the opportunity to reinvent myself. I'm a techie with a beard....

I am too lazy and boring for a username, so I just use my RL name.

From an old clip that played on a radio station back home "Sittin' on the porch with my ol' lady, eatin' a ham-sammich"

I used to really love William Gibson. It's the name of a fictional musical duo in one of his novels, Idoru.

Wanted to be crass and nerdy, simultaneously.

I just like dogs...

"All the things that used to be inside of me, now they're outside... But the inside of me is empty."

Nakari has "existed" since I was a teenager. Started off as a character I used in writing as an outlet, but slowly the name also became a handle for me. Hell, I guess an entire "presence" since it's my go-to for most sites.

Lexfortaine came around because I wanted something vaguely "proper" sounded in a D&D game, and I never actually got around to giving the character Nakari a "canon" last name. It worked well enough for an asspull, and has just been tracked on ever since. Grown to like it, actually. Feels more like a proper name.

It’s a thought

Akuma is a boss. Been my favorite all through my childhood.

Honestly, Halo 3

I like Gallade.

I have many thoughts

I made a club penguin account when I was younger and this is the username I use ever since.

It started off on Discord as a joke I no longer remember the context of, and was originally just "PopeJoeI (as in Pope Joe the First)" , and then spread to other areas, like the site formerly known as Twitter.

Then Discord added the crowns to admins and it then became "PopeKingJoe" and that's that.

Everyone gets excited whenever I board a ship

I combined my dog's names (Kona and Loki) but fucked it up the first time I ever used it as a username. It was supposed to be "Kolonaki" taking the first two letters of Kona and the first two of Loki then alternating in the second half of both. KoLoNaKi. But I accidentally entered "KolAnaki" and just ran with it.

I liked it so much, I made it my fursona's name since before that name was just "Raccoon."

The Neve 8028 is an amazing mixing console lmao.

Would be a very long comment but it's a reference Black Kettle's betrayal and murder by General Custer.

Take a wild guess

I was in a little cafe in Taiwan and that's what we ordered.

I'm a fan of BNA's tanuki main character Michiru, and Summer Tanuki's storyline, and how Tom Nook's name is pun with Tanuki and...

The stars just aligned for me, I swear.

Mai waifu.

I promise!!!

My username? Cuz I've had it since like 2003 or so, possibly even earlier. I'm a simple man, I like consistency.

I was hungry

I was really craving pancakes with maple syrup, but I was at home without pancake mix or syrup, and everything was closed because it was 3am.

It was about time.

Nyan Cat, but different

Cave Story

Years ago, when I was around 13-14, I wanted a "cool" sounding username, since I was also sick of coming up with usernames for websites. I did some thinking, and came up with "Mr.Champion". Used it ever since.

Because I had to to create an account...

I have a degenerate, coomer obsession with the character Widowmaker from Overwatch.

Cool hobby from my past ….. plus for whatever reason lemmy didn’t like my generated username and I gave up

because of duckington city? shall we? cheers my friends

Because it's a pejorative term for a loud-mouthed know-it-all bloviating idiot and I like to keep myself humble and try not to take myself too seriously.

bears

I guess I’m a sucker for puns.

It's such a majestic creature.

An inside joke

Boom, still got it

TJA – A German reaction to the apocalypse, dawn of the gods, nuclear war, an alien attack or no bread in the house.

Good music.

It's been my internet identity / haxxorz handle since the 1990s, and the story is about as benign as Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner and his black-and-yellow striped sweater.

It's from a book I like.

Am arcane and slimy, was descriptive.

I couldn't come up with shit so I put a random word through a cipher and switched a few letters around

I love thinking about the universe and I'm a guy. Not much too it. lol.

I just hate Disney

I thought it was funny

My name is the spell that I can cast in real life. Not as good as a real Muscle Wizard's, but it's something

I'm your best friend.

Username generator

It just seemed fitting.

I love the movie.

Been using it for so long, that I forgot how I chose it

At the time I hadn't tried limeade

It's a variation on what my wife calls me. It's been my username on forums and such for a long time.

Been using this user name since I made a PSN account when I was 12 lol

Because Ganondorf should have been a clone of Samus in Smash Bros Melee, not Captain Falcon. At the time, his one appearance (Ocarina of Time) had him using a projectile-focused moveset. This would have inevitably given him morph ball motions (down-B and roll), which would have ultimately been swapped out, but it's a fun thought that it would have been like that during part of development.

Very vaguely related related to my old reddit dead name.

Math was my favorite subject in school, and I think that adding the phrase "after dark" to something made it sound cooler. So I combined the two to create my username.

EDIT: my display name (not username) is the exact opposite of the display name I used on aliensite

childhood memory i guess

I get mad sometimes

Wind... fire... All that kind of thing.

It's like shootin' the breeze, but old time sailor-y.

My name is dedicated to the Nine-Tailed Fox from League, who she is my main in Wild Rift.

PS: I haven't played Wild Rift after I felt tired of getting tilted in Ranked.

Controversial

Came to me in a dream

I live on South End and I love sunsets…combined, it makes no fucking sense.

My friends name is Nick and was thinking about him when I came up with this name. Also wanted a cool unique name like my brothers came up with for their gamer tags.

Crunchyroll autogenerated it. I liked it.

WoW forums name. (Night Shift represent!)

Because this was my username on reddit before I deleted my account, and I don't have the creativity to think of something else

I'm trans and I like Sci Fi.

ummm I was you know...

A weird set of events. First I just wanted to sign up on SDF Public access UNIX system but I didn't want to waste my username for testing it out in case I did something wrong. So I went with user224. However a good user named xiled verified that account for me so I stuck with that username.

Later SDF posted on Twitter about running their own Lemmy instance, and since I didn't yet know what Lemmy was, I used the same username. Slowly I made comments and posts locking myself into the stupid "user224" username. And I can't change it.

Random word plus random number after it. I decided I needed to be a little more careful with my info.

Name of my favourite novel.

I asked chatgpt for generated usernames, and this was one that I liked

It's a long convoluted story but when I was a teen (I'm 46 now) I created a series of designs I called "earthbound angel" over the years it morphed to whoisearth.

I like Doctor Who and it comes from my favourite season with my favourite companion.

Because The Doors is my favorite band.

Fan of The Arsenal.

It's the generated handle of my reddit account and I was happy with it because its a good name and it's over here.

I lost my username once and couldn't recover the account

I thought my name in English meant "John Savior", so I just decided to make my online alias "JohnSavour", but for some reason I elongated it to "JohnSaveourSocks".

(Turns out it actually means John Servant, so "JohnServesYou" would've been more accurate.)

I have no clue.

Someone on reddit a long time ago said, look at the item to your right, that's your new username, what is it? It was before I had ever made an account so I took that as time to make one. I was at work so a bag of plasma was there. Done deal.

Because it's mine and it was available.

Autocorrect kinda fudged mine up and I said go it.