I’m satisfied with mine and I use it everywhere. How about you?

  • Stern@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    edit-2
    6 months ago

    Fine by me. It’s disconnected from prior usernames except in one case, which I prefer.

    • MagicShel@programming.dev
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      6 months ago

      Every few years I change up. I don’t like too much info about me being discoverable. I’m very uncensored online and if I had a bunch of people paying attention or especially able to link it to my real world identity I would be very uncomfortable being who I am.

      One time my Reddit name matched my FetLife name and I managed to piss someone off who went through my post history and I quickly recognized my vulnerability. So no more of that shit.

  • nocturne@sopuli.xyz
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    6 months ago

    I am fine with it, I have been using nocturne on the Internet since 93. Although I hate having to use a number at the end of it. When I joined sopuli I decided to replace the c with a k, since the instance is Finnish and I wanted the name to appear more Finnish. But I do not care for how it looks with the k.

    • clif@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      6 months ago

      You just have me a flashback to a game named Nocturne from the late 90s. I didn’t remember anything about it, but I recall enjoying it.

      I haven’t thought of that in at least 20 years.

  • grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    6 months ago

    I would have preferred “ScreamingGrasshopperMouse”, but it was too many characters long, so what I have now will have to do.

  • Harvey656@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    edit-2
    6 months ago

    People that pronounce the 656 in my name: six hundred and fifty six drive me nuts.

    Jokes aside I’ve had this username for around two decades, honestly it just sorta was the only thing that stuck with my 10 year old brain.

    Edit: forgot to mention runescape, that’s where this started.

  • JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    6 months ago

    Don’t know if you’ll see a lot of “no” replies, because I imagine if you’re not happy with your username, you would’ve already done something by now like a new account.

    I chose my username when I was a teenager and just kept with it since. The original meaning was that I’m a nerd, with both good and bad traits. It was also chosen with aspirations of being a YouTuber in mind and having something unique.

    That being said, as I’ve matured I like to think that while I am a computer nerd, there’s more to me than that single trait, so it may change in the future.

  • IMALlama@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    6 months ago

    I used my move to Lemmy to switch to a different one after having the same cross-platform alias for something like 20 years. It was time for a bit more anonymity. Winamp kids might suspect it’s related to the music player and they wouldn’t be wrong.

    I do somewhat regret not ending it with AMA, but such is life.

  • 667@lemmy.radio
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    6 months ago

    It can be tiring, what with the constant coming and going of souls next door, but it’s worth being the neighbor of the beast.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      6 months ago

      So I’m visiting a buddy one night. He’s at 669 Market Street, let’s say. I park a ways off because the roads are skinny.

      As I get put I notice a car pull into the drive on the left, up a ways, high side of the road. No big deal, but it’s dark mostly and I hear the engine running.

      It backs out and, as its front-left wheel bumps over the rough berm, I see the driver door swing open and shut. No one’s in the car! It executes a perfect back-left turn to come toward me, and just short of me it executes another perfect right-back turn to swing into the driveway on the down side of the road. Just before I’m sure it’s going to slam into the back of their car-port at what is now a pretty good rolling speed, it does another capricious turn onto the lawn - still backwards - and hits the house at a basement window at a 45 degree angle and stoves in the wall a bit. And then all hell breaks loose.

      See, that place across the street is a known crack house, and the mounties stationed a guy there for a while to watch it. And while the driver is trying to apologize in broken English after running out of there and come to see where his car wandered to, and is trying to get into his car like he can just drive his car outta there, no-harm no-foul, out comes the guy from sleeping on the other side of that wrecked wall, super upset, badge and gun held in front like they do. Commands are barked. Buddy gets bracelets. It’s very exciting as I walk past this mess with the car on the lawn where it was peaceful not 30 sec before.

      I get to 669 and by friend says “hey, what was the commotion? Did 666 Market have some drama?” Brother, you have no idea.