How attached are you to your username?

Thelsim · edit-2 2Y

How attached are you to your username?

@dulcetsunshine@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2Y

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BlueÆther · 2Y

Quite attached to this one for now, but have gone by others in the past. probably quite easy to find me IRL, oh well…

BlueÆther · 2Y

Just did a quick look, I’ve been using a version of this on and off for 20 years

strawberry · 2Y

I have two. quite like this one

zkfcfbzr · 2Y

Deeply attached. If anything ever happened to it I’d be completely devastated.

@UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.works · 2Y

zkfcfbzr more like… dumb

@Serinus@lemmy.world · edit-2 2Y

Thelsim · 2Y

:) No trap. Just curious to see how people deal with online identities. Feel free to not answer anything or to be as vague as you want.
The last thing I want is to intrude on anyone’s privacy.

Haus · 2Y

This name goes back to the early text-based multiplayer adventure games of the late 80s, when our area of the Internet was still called ARPAnet. It was originally (Felix) Hausdorff, the founder of Topology. But, Hausdorff is a lot more typing than Haus.

Thelsim · 2Y

That’s so interesting! It really has a lot of history behind it then.
I tried to look up Hausdorff and Topology, but the wikipedia page for Hausdorff Space made my head hurt :)

@Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works · 2Y

I try to vary usernames on high anonymous community. While on some other communities, I go by the same which is more or less attached to my real life persona.

KptnAutismus · 2Y

for a long time i have used moskito10, but i decided on my current one a few years ago.

Nate Cox · 2Y

Very

Lvxferre · 2Y

Enough to have been using it for 15~20 years. I only use it in a few sites though, where I feel like I want some sort of “identity” - otherwise I’ll pick something random.

@Portosian@sh.itjust.works · 2Y

I use the same name for most things out of habit, but I wouldn’t be too put out if it is taken when signing up for something new.

komplekx · 2Y

Yeah pretty attached. It’s just a thing I like using as a synonym for myself

Cyclohexane · 2Y

I learned to enjoy multiple usernames. It’s just more fun. Cyclohexane is cool also!

@OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works · 2Y

I used to have a single username that I used everywhere. But the last couple of years I started using a few different ones.

I think OneWomanCreamTeam is my favorite username, but I have so many accounts in other places under different names it’s hard to feel too attached to it.

Chloe Luna \ she/they/it · 2Y

If I could go back I would pick a different one, but I already made accounts everywhere so I’m stuck.