How do you pick your usernames?

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How do you pick your usernames? - Lemmy.ca

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?

I generally just use my name
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I’vr used www.name-generator.org.uk before. Worked well enough.
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Generate first and last names using keywords and categories or fetch some at random. Filter, sort and play.

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I’m weird and generally people think I’m an idiot

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Nobody really gives a crap anyways and the signal username is not displayed to your peers. Combine some shit and be good.

Sometimes, I use a password Generator for nicknames
It came to me in a dream. I don’t know what it means.
Mine accurately describes me
I used to trust a lot of things, but then i stopped
I’m glad you can still trust Noone. Whoever they are.

I don’t want spam

Well I know what I want, so I ask for it in the username.

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My default is the first name I gave to myself before I even was in first class.

When I need something else or temporary I just slap together some words.

I usually go for a play on words

Last week on lan party friend named himself Fu-King-Sheep.

“Who is fucking sheep?”

“I hope that nobody is fucking sheep”

He had something like this every game.

If you haven't done it yet, next time set you name to Your Daddy.
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.
“Cloud” is the name of my first love.
Peak graphics literally we won’t ever be able to surpass it!
I pick something that describes me but isn’t too specific

It’s a concept in Japanese martial arts that I read in a book by Takuan Soho.

Wiki:

Fudōshin (Japanese: 不動心) is a state of equanimity or imperturbability (literally and metaphorically, “immovable mind”,[1] “immovable heart”[2] or “unmoving heart”). It is a philosophical or mental dimension to Japanese martial arts which contributes to the effectiveness of the advanced practitioner.

I was training in Jujutsu and kenjutsu at the time and the concept clicked. I know it sounds very ‘weeb’ but it was an epiphany and quite profound for me at the time.

There’s a Shingon Buddhist deity that encapsulates the concept too and he holds a sword to cut through ignorance and delusion.

There’re some related concepts like Mushin that come together with marital arts.

The Unfettered Mind - Wikipedia

That’s really cool, thank you for sharing :)
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.
Do you block someone if they say "hey bonehead what's up?"
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.
I used to ride a motorbike like a cunt. Tried to be descriptive.
mine is just a shortened version of freedom fighter
I’m just really, actually Frankenstein.
Bro’s responding from the nsfw instance
A username I used from other sites.
Been using it since the 20th century, and it’s never taken by anyone else.
I’m going to start stealing your username on all new sites so you’ll have to be like Rhyn0plaz
Same. Had it since BBSs were a thing. No one else has ever created an account with it either. It’s irritating when a service requires #s in the username field. Don’t find those often and I don’t usually stick around.
Assuming the name has no real use or meaning, I’ll often “blur” the site into a similar/related word, and possibly do that a couple of times. For instance, Signal becomes singer, becomes your favorite singer. Or signal becomes noise, becomes Public Enemy. Bonus points if I can bring it back to a pun
I spent 5 minutes coming up with a xbox360 username as a kid based off games I recently payed. Good enough to last me my entire life.

My name is a reference to Arsenal FC.

Arsenal Football Club - 1886 (the founding year) - VCC (Victoria Concordia Crescit, literally “Victory Through Harmony”)

I created this account to ask about curves.
Don’t wanna dox myself but mine was my favorite character in a video game and my favorite band. That combination was never taken in anything.
It helps to have a favorite band whose logo is related to your hobby
I just use my password.
It’s meaningful to me, and meaningless to the internet.
Just kind of random gibberish
Some leather men called me this at pride and it stuck
I try to make it as short as possible because it looks cool to me
I had a plan that’d I’d comment on random things i came across and give a really convincing but incorrect take on it. Never got around to it.
It just sort of came to me
Something bad had just happened to me
I had no idea and translated that to Swahili.
Whatever came to mind first