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…

Me too, buddy
- Now that Reddit’s been made obsolete,
  Our new usernames can be discreet
  So, make your name right
  The future looks bright
  For Sweatyfartz and weinermeat
- Well at least someone needs me weinermeat
...Yeah.
- Yikes. We’re in this together now…
Idk, I'd say you nailed it. Lol
- Your username is dope though!
I need to rethink my life too
Same
🫡
Yeup, I make fart noises too. ! Damn it all!
🤣

So you’re saying you don’t want insightful, thoughtful comments from u/rimjob_steve this time around?

Granted I need to figure out how to browse communities….but if there isn’t a Lemmy version of /r/rimjob_steve we definitely need to make one. That never got old for me.
Edit: I went ahead and created the community! Find it here!
- Search for instances and communities: https://lemmyverse.net/
- Be the change you want to see in the world.
Of all the things about reddit, /u/sinkpisser420 giving sound financial advice was one of the best things about the platform.
Who doesn’t want hair tips or relationship advice from u/anal-plundering?
Only the best information cause from a guy like that come on man!🤣

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.

I don’t want to get crabs on any instance
Nice try, crab people.

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.

I'm pretty happy with mine.

I wanted something with no reddit drama attached what so ever

Got mine

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

I chose well this time

i use dvorak or quertz so i guess your choice is very legit in your area

Oh no

Well, fuck.

oh well... there's always next time

But, I am looking forward to changing my political views and recontextualizing my reality from a stirring post by CumFartCocktail :(

I'm just here because Spez sucks.

I didn't even think about this lol.

God... dammit

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.

Remember back in the old web when letting people know your real name was a horrifying breach of personal privacy? Heck, having the same username for multiple places gave me the hives, if it was unique enough.
We need to go back to those days; not just for safety reasons but because there’s a freedom to the individualized anonymity of being a (apparently) distinct user in each instance.

Yeah I sometimes wish my parents didn't name me trouser_mouse

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

I got this!

Uhh... I got nothing.

Feeling good

Perfectly happy with my username thank you very much

I have just the best username.

@spez@lemmy.world @spez@lemmy.ml @spez@beehaw.org @spez@sh.itjust.works

Idk if these accounts exists but...

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

Can't improve on perfection

I think I did fine

Eh I'll be fine.

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

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

Make sure it will stay relevant

Well this is a bit awkward

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 just chose my real name.

..oops

You can screw it up. My display name here, for example, isn't my login name.

Definitely corrected the mistake, I went much dumber this time around.

Heck yeah

Still waiting for u/fuckswithducks

i... failed...

I think I smashed it this time

I'm still waiting for our legend rimjob_steve.

Shit

I made a choice and I stand by it, so should you trouser mouse!

Alice. Literally just my name

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

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.

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

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

Looks like it is on this server, but that doesn’t stop someone from using that name on the many other servers!

I think I did well...

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

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

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 always miss these things

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 got my name

I love mud and have no ragrets.

You just had to bait them didn’t you?

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

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

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

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

Thanks god I can change my display name

I'll have my peas 😡!

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

True

I'm Batman.

Let ChatGPT decide. Not disappointed.

I addad an "h" in front.

I'm surprised I got this!

Too late for that.

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.

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

I think mine is ok

Sorry that ship sailed

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.

Absolutely.

SexWithSilverWolf@lemm.ee 💀

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

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

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.

I like my new user name.

Rate my username.

fart noises

Oh damn it!!

It hurts

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'm happy with my new username.

My username was Foreskin-Gaming69, don't ask

Nooooow you tell me smh

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 :(

I choose to forever cringe at my first chosen name.

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

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

Anyone comes up in here with random word + random word + random number, we're going to have a fight.

I should have thought of that.

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

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

I nicked one that I liked.

waiting for Reddit’s own isis-blowjob-slave to make an appearance

I refuse.

Eat me.

My first username from over a decade ago was horrible.

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.

Some usernames should stay the same though, right?

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.

who took spez?

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

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.

How did I do?

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

I just don't like Disney.

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 was born Kamehameherp, and I will die Kamehameherp.

Too late

#noregrets

At least its something

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)

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.

I don't think my username is embarrassing enough.

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.

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

I got my first name :)

Three letter club ftw!

I still used numbers

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

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

Ah fuck

The early birds get the 3 letter words

bro I just got war flashbacks from Republic Commando
- undefined> Republic Commando
  Heh, unfortunately unrelated!
Thanks to this comment I just registered my IRL initials. I figure this will be my "professional" account. I'll do all my embarrassing stuff on main.

My username is god honouring thank you very much

Cryptid foot doc checking in.

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

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

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

Embarrassing?

Oh well. Maybe on the next Revolution.

Lol prepare for "PM_ME_[WEIRD_SHIT]".

Hola, Sangria?

I like mine.

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

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

Cool and anonymous enough.

I'm a 2023 Ford pinto

Still unable to.

Too late

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

Huh.

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

I am content with good enough.

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

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

Totally not a screwup

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

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.

What app is closest to RIF?

Now I know how it works

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

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

Fuck that, embrace your teenage cringe self

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

So like @alexeyd1000@lemm.ee?!

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

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

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

I did good, me thinks.

I finally got my original username I'm happy

think I improved it...?

Yo yo!

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

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

Oops

Nah. I'm embracing my naive mistake.

I kept the same name.

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

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

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: !avalanche@lemmy.world

Edit: Thanks, @CommunityLinkFixer.

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?

I never learn..

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. 🔆

I'm pretty happy with what I got

It's more in line with my other online presence

Made a typo, too late.

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

Got it right this time then!

No regrets!

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

What's wrong with ChewingLlama9435?

I’m good with mine still 😂

Paging Mr. throbbingpens

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

Too late 😔

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

Someone swiped my username here.

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

🤭

I got my original username back.

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

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

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.

My time has…come.

I'm quite happy with mine :D

good idea.

Yea i just have some acnt

I've always had trouble coming up with good user names, I think I lack imagination. Most of the time I just use my given first name plus my following two initials.

I actually came up with something for my Reddit account. I'm using the same one here I did on Reddit, except I have to spell the "-" special character since Lemmy won't take it. Reddit took the dash, but not the asterisk. I like my new one better actually. For those not Unix operating system aware, my user name (rm -r *) means "delete the world".

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

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.

I used the same username.

No.

Too late =(

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

Yep. Thought about that

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.

Way ahead of you o7

HairyButtocks96, at last, you will be finally mine.

I hope i am safe now.

Cool

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

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

Too late for me lol

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

God damn right

Thank you sweet baby Jesus

Already ahead of you

My main Reddit name was far more vulgar than this.

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

Yup

Nice...

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

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 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.

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

At least its something

I want to bang Widowmaker

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