Now that we are all switching to Lemmy, now is the time for all the redditors with embarrassing usernames to make their username right! Don't screw up this time!
Now that we are all switching to Lemmy, now is the time for all the redditors with embarrassing usernames to make their username right! Don't screw up this time!
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My preferred nickname was taken on Reddit, I had to use a lame one (~5-10 years ago when I was creating the account).
My obsessive personality dictates that however awesome the platform is, if I can't use
netvor(without any suffixes etc.) I just don't ever really form any attachment to the platform. Normally traits like this are problematic but it probably saved me from shittons of hours of arguing with Someone wrong on the Internet, so there's the bright side. 🔆I'm glad you got it here then :)
And I understand that haha; but the good side is that even if it would be taken on one instance, you could just go to a different one.
I would totally have went instance-shopping for my username.
Like I did with mastodon... too bad I don't remember name of the instance. (I sure remember the username!)
I've even considered possibility of this vicious cycle:
- I register somewhere as
netvor - I forget that I ever registered
- few years later, I try to (re-)register
- it's taken by "someone", let's find another instance then...
- go to step 1
- I register somewhere as