Do you have a single username you feel attached to?
Or do you like to use different names for different occasions?
Edit two and a half days later:
Thank you all for answering my question! It was so interesting and fun to read all of your responses.
I really appreciate you for taking the time to write.
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Deeply attached. If anything ever happened to it I’d be completely devastated.
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I’d rather not have a recognizable persona online
This name is just the fewest a’s i was allowed to register with
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This is a cool idea
You can take it from my cold, slippery hands.
Ew, you can keep it :)
I just use my username to express myself until people who don’t like me ban me and then choose another to continue being myself.
Mine is a work of art
I’m more attached to it then my real name
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To the spliff or the username? :)
I have been this user name for seventeen years. I’m ADHD and forget friend on platforms. This makes it easy to find me.
I used to be attached to my username, it was unique enough to be used everywhere. I used it in the mindset of creating an online presence, so my friends recognize me in other games and such, but then slowly realized it makes you very DOXable and vulnerable in general.
Nowadays I use one username per hobby, except gaming. I want you to be able to find other stuff I created in that specific space, but I don’t want you to find out everything about me.
EDIT: Also, my username was too unique, if you googled it, you would get hundreds of results, and almost all of them were me… Random accounts on sites, forum posts, etc.
Seems like you and I had a similar mindset when we made our Lemmy accounts
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.
Well, shite
I’ve grown very attached to my username and see it as part of myself. I like to be recognized by my name, and try to keep it unique. Partly because it’s a part of me that I don’t get to express often in daily life.
However, I do keep my personas strictly separated from each other. I have one for professional use to ask questions that can be too easily identified with who I am offline, several for throwaway names and this one for social interactions. I don’t care too much about the others, but do like to see myself as Thelsim as much as my other self.I just use my name.
Pretty attached. My parents picked it.
If I could just be “Bill” everywhere I would but it really only works on the fediverse.
