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.

That would be a cool username

I'm pretty happy with mine.

He's alive! And on lemmy!!
- I'm not alive, I'm undead.
- Now he should die for our sins!
I'm pretty happy with mine too.
- Why the fuck are you godless? I'm right here, bitch.
Are we talking pre-crucifixion, zombie, or the missing lore three day period between?
- Zombie Jesus, obviously. It's 2023, not 10 AD.
Let's crucify this guy

I wanted something with no reddit drama attached what so ever

Got mine

Oof lmao. You good dawg?

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

Oh no

I chose well this time

Well, fuck.

oh well... there's always next time

God... dammit

Sup
- Ah, my first kindred spirit

I'm just here because Spez sucks.

Well I am too, so can you really blame me that I burned down reddit for my personal gain and an increase of magnitudes in my wealth?

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.

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

I got this!

Feeling good

Uhh... I got nothing.

Perfectly happy with my username thank you very much

I have just the best username.

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]

Idk if these accounts exists but...

Eh I'll be fine.

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

I think I did fine

Can't improve on perfection

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

Well this is a bit awkward

Make sure it will stay relevant

I just chose my real name.

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

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

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.

Still waiting for u/fuckswithducks

i... failed...

Heck yeah

I tried so hard, but only got this far.
- And in the end

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

Alice. Literally just my name

You can change it now if you want! Alice is a good name though, especially since I am a fan of Wonderland.
- thank you ! oh damn right it is, i'm completely satisfied with it! Though, the origin of my name comes from something MUCH different than Alice in Wonderland...

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.

Shit

I'm still waiting for our legend rimjob_steve.

I think I smashed it this time

Nice! That's a good one. I also feel good, I feel like I should never have to put a /s next to my comments ever again lol
- It's supposed to be "ThisGuy'sNeverSerious."
Resplendent, brilliant, gravitous, monumentous choice sir!

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

Snake? Snake?! Snaaaaaake?!!?!?!
Same - only not 20 years, more like 15-16 years.

Reddit for 8. Steam for longer.
- I had this as my AIM name, back before I had anything related to online gaming. Possibly used a different name in EverQuest but I can't remember lol

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

I think I did well...

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

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

You just had to bait them didn’t you?

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

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.

I always miss these things

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 love mud and have no ragrets.

I got my name

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

I'll have my peas 😡!

Thanks god I can change my display name

True

Let ChatGPT decide. Not disappointed.

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

I'm Batman.

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

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

I addad an "h" in front.

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

Too late for that.

I think mine is ok

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.

Sorry that ship sailed

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

I'm surprised I got this!

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

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

Lol I used a random name generator

[email protected] 💀

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 :(

Don't worry. I just used an obsolete English word.
Don't worry, I just wrote the first name that came to mind while dipping my balls in the shredder

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

Rate my username.

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.

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

I choose to forever cringe at my first chosen name.

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.

A Balls doesn't change their username they leave the shredder right on the end just like their elementary school nickname
- Thank you for your sacrifice, I am sorry for your loss.

My username was Foreskin-Gaming69, don't ask

Absolutely.

I'm happy with my new username.

fart noises

Oh damn it!!

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

It hurts

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

Nooooow you tell me smh

I like my new user name.

I nicked one that I liked.

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

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.

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

Eat me.

I should have thought of that.

Some usernames should stay the same though, right?

My first username from over a decade ago was horrible.

I refuse.

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

Shhhhhh......

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.

Wow, you're active! A whopping 372 comments since the exodus
- Yeah the other day five hours went by like nothing. I’m a little worried.
- Incidentally when I was an Uber driver I picked up a passenger who was a tall, super muscular black man wearing very little clothing, like a lion cloth or something.
  
  I had been expecting someone named Jenny.
  
  He told me he was Abbadon, Archangel of the Abyss, and that he was here because humanity was on the brink of massive death.
  
  I wasn’t sure what to say. I pressed him for details but he said it would not be good to tell me.
  
  He asked how I knew the city so well. I told him I was just following the blue line. He said “what blue line” and I showed him the Uber app on my phone. He asked about the capabilities of the phone. Seemed fascinated by the way the map changed in real time as I drove.
  
  The drop off point was a diner. But given it was a few hours before dawn the diner was closed. I asked if he wanted me to take him somewhere else instead. He said no, “This is exactly where I need to be”.
  
  I gave “Jenny” five stars.

who took spez?

I just don't like Disney.

How did I do?

You did great. Sounds like you were the second person ever to get an account online or the second successful chat bot ever unleashed to the web.
- Thank you fellow human!

At least its something

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.

#noregrets

I was born Kamehameherp, and I will die Kamehameherp.

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

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

Too late

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

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.

Ah fuck

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

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

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.

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)

My username is god honouring thank you very much

Three letter club ftw!

Word

I don't think my username is embarrassing enough.

I still used numbers

Hola, Sangria?

Totally not a screwup

Huh.

Mine was always perfect

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

Lol prepare for "PM_ME_[WEIRD_SHIT]".

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

Should've went with my old banned username..

Or maybe not, people were always saying weird things about it bc it was basically "YourMouthIsMyShithole"

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

Cryptid foot doc checking in.

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

I am content with good enough.

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

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

I like mine.

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

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.

Embarrassing?

I'm a 2023 Ford pinto

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

What app is closest to RIF?

Cool and anonymous enough.

Still unable to.

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

Too late

Oh well. Maybe on the next Revolution.

Ah fck. Missed it

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

So like @[email protected]?!

I did good, me thinks.

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

My name will never not be relevant!

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

Anyone who gets the obscure reference in my name wins nothing

Now I know how it works

Yo yo!

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: [email protected]

Edit: Thanks, @CommunityLinkFixer.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

think I improved it...?

I finally got my original username I'm happy

I kept the same name.

Fuck that, embrace your teenage cringe self

Oops

Nah. I'm embracing my naive mistake.

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?

Someone swiped my username here.

Too late =(

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

Too late 😔

I'm pretty happy with what I got

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

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

No.

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.

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

I'm quite happy with mine :D

Paging Mr. throbbingpens

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

Got it right this time then!

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

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. 🔆

No regrets!

🤭

good idea.

I’m good with mine still 😂

I got my original username back.

Same, I've had this handle since 1993, and after the clothing company opened I don't often get it without numbers on the end.

It's more in line with my other online presence

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

I never learn..

I used the same username.

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

My time has…come.

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

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.

Yea i just have some acnt

What's wrong with ChewingLlama9435?

Made a typo, too late.

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

Too late for me lol

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.

God damn right

Cool

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

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

HairyButtocks96, at last, you will be finally mine.

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

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.

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

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.

Nice...

Yep. Thought about that

At least its something

Already ahead of you

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

Thank you sweet baby Jesus

Yup

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

Way ahead of you o7

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

I hope i am safe now.

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

I want to bang Widowmaker