This has probably been asked before but I wanted to add another layer/an alternative.
So, I ask, where did your username/pseudonym/nickname originate from? What’s the meaning behind it?
Or alternatively, which is the most creative/interesting nickname origin you have come across?
I like captain Picard.
All of Lemmy knows. Never stop. Your account is basically a cultural heritage site at this point.
I’m a squirrel.
and I’m a tuna!
Hi tuna!
Hello!
Caveman eat tuna

My username is literal. I’m literally a wood scientist. Or more specifically, I’m a current PhD student in civil engineering and wood science. Identifying Wood by Hoadley was actually a textbook in one of the courses I took.
That’s awesome, keep up the wood work ;)
I do quite a lot of that as well. In fact, woodworking was what made me first consider wood science as a field of study.

I take your wood and I burn it down. (I’m a PhD fire scientist)
Not as many as you might think.
Take a guess 😅
Ironic name like calling a large person Tiny.
Clearly you are a young whippersnapper!
Mine is my password I use for all my accounts. It is very convenient for the frequent times I forget it. I can just come here and there it is.
How many login attempts did you just receive?
I wish there was a way I could tell.
g8 b8 m8
I got onto Reddit back in the day for the electronic music production subreddits. There was an old Daft Punk interview during the big Ultra Music festival days where they made a joke that all EDM music was made by just one guy, Eric David Morris.
Join us at !musicproduction@sh.itjust.works
thanks!!! I didn’t know this existed, subbed
Great! It was unmoderated for a while but I recently took it over and I’m hoping to breathe some life into it.
Hahahahaha I love it!
Observing the internet from my toilet.
Aren’t we all? 🤔
This is gold, what a poet you are
Nice try.
😏
“Corno” is just a username I made up in my head since I like how it sounds and I was weirdly craving some cornflakes while signing up. As for my display name, that’s…well, my name! 😃
Sorry to bring bad news, but corno in Brazil is slang to having been cheated on…
I am the shell script version of myself

When Counterstrike first came out a quarter century ago one friend had a PC and we would take turns playing it and wanted to compare stats on some 3rd party stat tracking site so we could talk shit on each other. Finding a unique name was a pain, but I got lucky with this one, which is probably based on something Jay from Clerks said.
I’ve been lucky that it isn’t taken when signing up for stuff so I keep using it. A happy little accident.
I used to be just “Cyborg” in IRC, forums and online games back in the late 90’s because I found them cool. That was always my online nickname.
But it was already taken on Reddit when I joined so so many years ago. Cyborg is short for Cybernetic Organism. So I just used organism in the name instead. It was unique enough that no one else used it.
Andrew t a
Andrew (teachers assistant)
Or depending on my mood
Andrew (total asshole)
Luckily not Andrew tate











