Ask Lemmy

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

Because I think that summer is too warm

TLC wrote a song about me.

It's been my nickname for over 50 years.

I’m a simple man.

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.

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

Ich bin ein Hurensohn

Because I make chairs.

Rocks are cool

I thought it was funny

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')

Shork

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

KeePassXC password gen.

Have you seen kiwis? They're adorable!

The bird is alright too I guess

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

It appeals to the edgelord teenager in me.

I was thinking of McDonald's and balls

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

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)

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!