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!

Shoot…

So you’re saying you don’t want insightful, thoughtful comments from u/rimjob_steve this time around?

I went for thought-provoking this time around.

It's easy to get a username at the moment.

Yes! Don't use a password generator to make a username

Too late bro

Couldn't get the username you wanted? It's probably available on another federated instance.

Don't tell me what to do

Completely understand why people would want to change their names. But why mess with perfection in my case?

I'll change it later...

Don't tell me how to live my life.

I'm pretty happy with mine.

I wanted something with no reddit drama attached what so ever

Got mine

Will do!

Shit

how did I do?

I have no regrets

Nailed it.

Showerthought: This post is just an opportunity for users with inappropriate usernames to show them off.

Selfhost your own instance, and you can have any username

Who will be our RimjobSteve?!

I made the leap to Lemmy from reddit....16 ft through an announcers table

I chose well this time

Oh no

Well, fuck.

oh well... there's always next time

God... dammit

I'm just here because Spez sucks.

I didn't even think about this lol.

But, I am looking forward to changing my political views and recontextualizing my reality from a stirring post by CumFartCocktail :(

I don't understand on why on a website where you can be anyone that you would choose to be something gross.

That would have been waaaay funnier if it came from an account named sexybabyboy92

I made sure not to use my real name this time. I had too much karma when I realized how dumb a move that was.

I got this!

You guys are aware that you can change your display name, right?

Uhh... I got nothing.

Feeling good

@spez@lemmy.world @spez@lemmy.ml @spez@beehaw.org @spez@sh.itjust.works

Idk if these accounts exists but...

I have just the best username.

Perfectly happy with my username thank you very much

My old Reddit username has my birth year in it. Not as cringy now that I’m older, but when I made my account I was 15 lol. Big time “Summer Reddit” energy

Can't improve on perfection

I think I did fine

Well this is a bit awkward

I had this one in my head for yeaaaaars and I'm so glad I can start from scratch here in the fediverse.

Make sure it will stay relevant

I just chose my real name.

Reddit couldnt let me reach my full potential. Look at me and tremble!

Wanted PanGalacticGargleBlaster but apparently that was to long. So now I'm probably named like a gay pornstar. Well, it is what it is

Eh I'll be fine.

Definitely corrected the mistake, I went much dumber this time around.

..oops

You can screw it up. My display name here, for example, isn't my login name.

Heck yeah

Still waiting for u/fuckswithducks

i... failed...

Alice. Literally just my name

I'm still waiting for our legend rimjob_steve.

Shit

I think I smashed it this time

Kept the same username I've had for 20+ years.

You can set your own display name, and you can have any username you want if you run your own instance or at least join a small one. Getting that one special username is not that important which is great because it's another feature that keeps egos in check.

I put a typo in my username when I first signed up on Reddit. I got it right this time! I think...

I think I did well...

I always regretted my reddit username, I did better this time (I guess)

My last one was "AmiawakeWasTaken"... so glad I got here first this time!

This is true. I wonder if Spez is already taken...

I love mud and have no ragrets.

I got my name

You just had to bait them didn’t you?

Too late. I told my wife I wouldn't use it again because it wasn't the greatest, but don-ju-wan-me-baby?

I've been the pope too long to give up now

I always miss these things

I don't even watch wrestling. Just the idea of an elbow drop is hilarious to me. Like the rocks people elbow.

I actually did watch a WWE thing on Hulu recently. I made it about 22 min. They took a commercial break during the match.

it's part of growing up. wear your -69adidas69- user name loud and proud.

Let ChatGPT decide. Not disappointed.

I'll have my peas 😡!

I addad an "h" in front.

True

Thanks god I can change my display name

I'm just using the same username I use for everything lol

I don't get it? If your embarrassed by it just make a new one?

I was finally able to get my gamertag as a username. All is good over here at Lemmy

I'm Batman.

For me it was just getting in first so I didn't have to add numbers.

Technically you can have any username you would ever like, just spin up your own instance!

I'm surprised I got this!

Listen, RUMPLEFORESKIN is not embarrassing, OK? I just didn't want my kids asking about it. Jeeeeze.

Tbh, my first thought was to use my old one. Then I really went for a fresh start, and actually I like this one better.

Too late for that.

I definitely took the time to make sure I was more incognito this time around. 🤣

Sorry that ship sailed

I think mine is ok

Think I did ok, but does it really matter when I can just create my own instance and choose whatever username I want?

Not embarrassing but I had a pretty unimaginative username and always felt I could have done better. Lemmy gave me a chance to have a kickass username… and I squandered it by feeling too much pressure and writing whatever came to my mind first in the prompt :(

I choose to forever cringe at my first chosen name.

I like my new user name.

Rate my username.

What can I say? I like my name so much I went and made it my Lemmy domain and my username.

A wizard does not change his username, he carries it with the same pride or shame that one does of any nickname earned in highschool-college.

I'm happy with my new username.

Absolutely.

fart noises

Oh damn it!!

I knew I should have added "3000" to the end of my lemmy name. DestroyerOfWorlds just sounds so weak now.

I didn't exist before, and I still don't. I have never existed, and I never will.

Nooooow you tell me smh

SexWithSilverWolf@lemm.ee 💀

Yeah no way hose. Changing the name here would be admitting to myself that it was a stupid nickname back then. I mean, i know it was a stupid nickname but admitting it is a step too far.

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My username was Foreskin-Gaming69, don't ask

It hurts

I was thrilled to find my spirit animal available as a username.

...is anyone going to tell everyone about display_name?

Anyone comes up in here with random word + random word + random number, we're going to have a fight.

waiting for Reddit’s own isis-blowjob-slave to make an appearance

I refuse.

My first username from over a decade ago was horrible.

My reddit name was based off of a meme from 2009... Funny at the time but boy it certainly showed it's age as time went on.

I should have thought of that.

I got my username back! I missed it. Got banned from reddit and used some alt for a while.

I like this username. Keeping it.

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Some usernames should stay the same though, right?

I nicked one that I liked.

Eat me.

who took spez?

I’d actually argue that it’s easier to get good names simply because each instance can have its own username pool. For instance, my username could also be used on other instances by other people. Me creating this account doesn’t stop someone from creating the same name elsewhere.

I just don't like Disney.

I removed the numbers from my username. Because I'm all grown up now.

I regret my Reddit user since it used a slur that I no longer want to associate with but now I also regret this user since I came up with a better one a few days ago

Oh well

I was born Kamehameherp, and I will die Kamehameherp.

That's what I was thinking too. All 11 inches of me.

At least its something

#noregrets

Too late

How did I do?

Ah fuck

I don't think my username is embarrassing enough.

I got my first name :)

The early birds get the 3 letter words

I wouldn't enable 2fa yet either there are some bugs, and the code it generated for me didn't work and locked me out of my account for a good bit. I'm not sure why but the 2fa link didn't work for me so I copied the secret out of the url and put it in my authenticator but it never worked. Just fyi.

My username is god honouring thank you very much

It would have been excellent comedic timing of your username was something stupid like shitsmear69420 or onelongboob1978 or whatever!

(I swear to God, if I see either one of those user names lurking around here I'm going to poop a brick)

see last time I thought other people were my problems ~12 years ago.

Now I just have people problems instead of like, homework problems, or computer problems, or car problems.

Wife cheats on me? People problem. My project a month an a half late because the previous project said "I dunno and gave up?" (haha you bastards could have written the exact same code im doing now three years ago) People problems.

Taxes? People problems. Family sick or injured or in surgery? People problems.

Three letter club ftw!

Meh, im too old to learn new patterns. Same username for me

Mine is good. Hacker name given to me by associates over 24 years ago.

Look, I've had some form of this cringe-ass username for 20 years now, this is just part of who I am now.

I still used numbers

Embarrassing?

It's how I've chosen to see myself from this day on.

I'm a 2023 Ford pinto

Oh well. Maybe on the next Revolution.

Oh my username screwed all night alright. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Its the username I wanted on reddit. Blast whoever had it there, vengeance is mine!

Cool and anonymous enough.

Lol prepare for "PM_ME_[WEIRD_SHIT]".

I am content with good enough.

Tryin this one out. Let's see how it agee

Hola, Sangria?

I like mine.

Meh. It's not embarassing if the literature i'm exploring is totally ~~porn~~ not porn.

What app is closest to RIF?

Too late

I barely changed mine but I heard that you can't trust someone with boy in their name and also I grew older so it was time to change mine.

Mine was always perfect

Ah fck. Missed it

I should have taken a super short nick, but alas.

i guess i got this right. this username is banned on reddit lol

My Reddit name was “ihaveredonme” which is not how British people would say it.

Totally not a screwup

Are people this averse to making a new account?

Seems like privacy-oriented Lemmy wouldn't care that much but even Reddit with its karma system wasn't that big of a hurdle to new accounts

Edit: apparently Lemmy DOES actually have a karma system

Cryptid foot doc checking in.

Well, I'm much happier with this one than my old reddit one anyway.

Still unable to.

Huh.

You know that you could just make another account, right?

So like @alexeyd1000@lemm.ee?!

Fuck that, embrace your teenage cringe self

Don't mind me, being a single crustacean hasn't been thaaaat bad eh? Hahahhshhjkfhhhah :(

I got like 5 usernames over on Reddit and don't like any of them. I'm using this on Minds too. Anybody else playing over there now?

FORK. I made the same one I used with Reddit. Gol darn it.

I’ll make a new one, probably. I’m already a mod on this account so I’ll just dual wield.

Colorado Avalanche fans reading this, come on over and subscribe: !avalanche@lemmy.world

Edit: Thanks, @CommunityLinkFixer.

Anyone who gets the obscure reference in my name wins nothing

I'm genuinely happy I got the username I did.

I hated my Reddit username so much. I feel free!!

I hate coming up with a username on any platform and am lazy every time.

I did good, me thinks.

Ah dang, you're right, I could have probably just been Mike

I finally got my original username I'm happy

think I improved it...?

Why didnt i think of that? Im a 38 year old man now. My teenage nickname doesnt fit me anymore..

Oops

I’m just happy I didn’t need to add a number to mine

Yo yo!

Nah. I'm embracing my naive mistake.

My name will never not be relevant!

Now I know how it works

I just wanted something kinda nifty, but ultimately forgettable. I think I succeeded.

Can't beat first name for a main non-anonymous account

I kept the same name.

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I never learn..

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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've changed mine. Not that my previous name was embarrassing in any way, but I just wanted to change my name.

Anyways instances have strict inspections on registrations before approving, especially the username. If the username is inappropriate, just create a different username.

Too late =(

Did this, since you can't change reddit usernames. But since I'm new to the fediverse, I did take a long time dithering over which instance I should register on.

I'm quite happy with mine :D

Too late 😔

I'm using my IRL given name here. I like my Reddit username (and was kinda surprised it was not already taken), but it was kind of a mask.

Yea I had an automatic username with a nazi associated number and I could not change the username.

Paging Mr. throbbingpens

🤭

I actually didn't know that

I’m happy my name was still available.
I like to have a consistent identity.

I used my real first name (15 year old account) so I'll be glad to finally use a fictional name

No regrets!

It's more in line with my other online presence

Someone swiped my username here.

good idea.

I used the same username.

I've always had trouble coming up with good user names, I think I lack imagination. Most of the time I just use my given first name plus my following two initials.

I actually came up with something for my Reddit account. I'm using the same one here I did on Reddit, except I have to spell the "-" special character since Lemmy won't take it. Reddit took the dash, but not the asterisk. I like my new one better actually. For those not Unix operating system aware, my user name (rm -r *) means "delete the world".

Made a typo, too late.

GOD DAMN It!!! What was I thinking?!? It’s to late 😑

I’m good with mine still 😂

What's wrong with ChewingLlama9435?

Got it right this time then!

I'm pretty happy with what I got

I got my original username back.

You're 8 days too late for me, mate!

My time has…come.

Yea i just have some acnt

I chose the same one because I got attached.......

No.

I snagged the name I wanted this time instead of having to add a bit of punctuation since a dead account was already using it on Reddit.

I actually installed threads just to grab "my" name, but it's already gone there so fick em

Thank you sweet baby Jesus

I chose a username with numbers on Reddit, now a lot cleaner.

I had this exact thought. It was time to shorten, and make it less weird.

God damn right

Already ahead of you

Too late for me lol

Yep. Thought about that

i'm using my original reddit username on lemmy, it got shadow banned without explanation over a decade ago, so i created a different one which became my main account, now with over half a million comment karma, stopped writing stuff on that site 2 weeks ago

Pretty much the same username I've had for years now. Gomiboy...yep,.it trash boy in Japanese. Kinda wish I had gone with something else now

Nice...

I changed mine but I have no idea why I picked this

So I noticed this in the user settings (at least here in Liftoff, not sure how it looks elsewhere), but you can set a "display name". Seems like a cool feature.

Yup

HairyButtocks96, at last, you will be finally mine.

i've managed to get my u/n on whatever way back to the original demonoid. it wasn't until discord that i found another one, but they capitalize the U for some dumb tasteless reason... i was operating the minecraft discord and Unerds was part of this roblox discord that had somehow managed to get the discord.gg/minecraft name, and they were brigading us. it was kinda funny... ultimately the minecraft community team came on board and they knew people at discord and the url was acquired for us.

But, I like my username. Why would I change it?

Cool

I've never felt so free as finally ditching my 2013 tier username

I decided to just go with a randomly generated name. Privacy and all :P Also, don't have to stress over it being bad

At least its something

Way ahead of you o7

I screwed up getting my username without a number. It might still be available but I m also a little lazy and dont feel like changing now.

I hope i am safe now.

My main Reddit name was far more vulgar than this.

I think I'm pretty good

I want to bang Widowmaker

No obe knows who you are behind the mask. Be cringy, it's not a negative.