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i imagine you won’t have an issue with spam in signal considering the .## they add to every username.

But in general the more distinct it is the less likely you’ll have someone nagging you.

If you want to avoid building a footprint of similar usernames my favorite is just switching out some letters (o’s to u’s or a’s to e’s stuff like that) or taking out specific letters entirely (ex: ottr)

i put in all the brainpower i can muster and think for about 2 hours before just choosing a random roman god/dess or something stupid that i think sounds cool or has to do with something i like, because i can't think of anything original. like if i had to make one right now it'd probably be uhhh superfluidhydrabreath

if i were queer enough i'd probably change that to supergenderfluid, but i'm not

games like stellaris are the most challenging to me solely because they require you to make up a lot of names, and i don't wanna use the auto generated names because that's stupid and for cowards. often times i spend more time making up names or designing my characters than i do playing the game the day i start

Something I was really into at one particular moment.

Not sure how I picked this one it was the name for a throwaway account I forgot about for like 10 years. Nowadays I like the randomly generated ones that are like random adjective with a random animal noun. Like AngryRaccoon or UglyBear

Well let's be real, anyone who's had them has tried this. As someone who does this often I must say it was difficult to type my username

I never use the same username across systems. That would make correlation way too easy.

Whatever came to mind first

I had no idea and translated that to Swahili.

Something bad had just happened to me

It just sort of came to me

I had a plan that'd I'd comment on random things i came across and give a really convincing but incorrect take on it. Never got around to it.

I try to make it as short as possible because it looks cool to me

Some leather men called me this at pride and it stuck

Be edgy and random

Just kind of random gibberish

It's meaningful to me, and meaningless to the internet.

I just use my password.

I like donuts

It helps to have a favorite band whose logo is related to your hobby

Don't wanna dox myself but mine was my favorite character in a video game and my favorite band. That combination was never taken in anything.

I created this account to ask about curves.

I spent 5 minutes coming up with a xbox360 username as a kid based off games I recently payed. Good enough to last me my entire life.

Assuming the name has no real use or meaning, I'll often "blur" the site into a similar/related word, and possibly do that a couple of times. For instance, Signal becomes singer, becomes your favorite singer. Or signal becomes noise, becomes Public Enemy. Bonus points if I can bring it back to a pun

Been using it since the 20th century, and it's never taken by anyone else.

Ethereal_tuberat

A username I used from other sites.

I'm just really, actually Frankenstein.

mine is just a shortened version of freedom fighter

It's my actual name. Anonymity is an illusion.

I used to ride a motorbike like a cunt. Tried to be descriptive.

Was called it a lot as a kid, I took it and made it my own. Now it let's me know who to block when someone has literally nothing left to their argument that they have to resort to using my username as an insult.