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

  • LordPassionFruit@lemm.ee
    24·
    3 months ago

    I’ve been using mine since 2011, and I will continue using it for many years. I have an alternate one that I use in some cases (things that need a little more professionalism attached), but for everything else, I will forever be LordPassionFruit.

    I also have never tasted passion fruit.

  • 667@lemmy.radioEnglish
    16·
    3 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.caEnglish
      2·
      3 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 out 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, in reverse, 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 my friend says “hey, what was the commotion? Did 666 Market have some drama?” Brother, you have no idea.

  • Vanth@reddthat.comEnglish
    12·
    3 months ago

    It’s fine. I don’t prioritize personally-relevant usernames. Using the same username across multiple platforms just makes it easier for data brokers and stalkers to make connections. Most of my usernames are the result of 20 seconds of thought related to some piece of media I have been consuming.

    When I picked this one, I was reading about psychopomps in various cultures. This figure was one I hadn’t read about before and I figured it would make for a nice, unique handle.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      7·
      3 months ago

      Using the same username across multiple platforms just makes it easier for data brokers and stalkers to make connections.

      I often get mine by using a FIPS-181-compliant pronounceable password generator, apg.

      $ apg -n8
cepKopBic
emEsugJi
mygpheaj
godPond8
DytekHubNi
chamhopp
CoHuotsyo
NupajHeOv

      On the Threadiverse, though, since the namespace was so unpopulated, figured, “eh, what the heck, be nice to have a short one”. Might rotate it at some point; I did go through a number on Reddit.

  • guy@lemmy.world
    131·
    3 months ago

    No chance I’m getting a username this simple on most platforms

  • Evotech@lemmy.world
    11·
    3 months ago

    I’ve never seen using the same name everywhere lead to something positive. Negative however, plenty of times.

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    9·
    3 months ago

    Of course. Derek is now both a singular point in space, and yet, Derek also contains space itself. The nexus of Derek is without dimension. The moment of Derek’s creation and the eventual heat death of the universe are now inexorably the same.

  • Stern@lemmy.world
    9·
    3 months ago

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

    • MagicShel@programming.dev
      9·
      3 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.

  • JustARegularNerd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    3 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.