On a good day I’m up around 5 AM, but I often find myself up even earlier than that. I joined my first Lemmy instance during one of these bouts of insomnia, prompting my username.
My avatar is from a worldbuilding project I work on.
I don’t have an avatar because I can’t figure out how to change it. Looked it up plenty and always come away empty handed.
“After the end of World War II, the world was split into two - East and West. This marked the beginning of the era called the Cold War.”
As a child in the local library, I always passed the large print section and there was always this one book there: The Spitting Image. It had a furious-looking gargoyle on the cover and it used to scare me at first, but over time it seemed goofier and goofier. And since as an adult I have to fight the urge to be goofy when I should be serious, I felt like it was suitable.
Lemmy let’s you have a user avatar? I’ve never seen one using Voyager.
My username is a Latin phrase meaning (this particular definition is from Wikipedia): In contemporary parlance, it means tyrannical leaders will inevitably be overthrown. The phrase also suggests that bad but justified outcomes should, or eventually will, befall tyrants.
I think rebellion against the US government is required at this point regardless of your political affiliation as our Public Servant’s have shown to not care for who they represent, the American people.
Lemmy.zip has/had a mismatch between frontend and backend validation on usernames. When the frontend allows something that the backend rejects, you get some random “InvalidName” pop-up on form submission.
I tried several different variations of my preferred user name, but I couldn’t figure out what was violating backend validation, so finally I settled on InvalidName. Which triggered a server error (500 error or timeout or something, I don’t recall).
But finally, one glorious moment in time, the lemmy.zip server accepted InvalidName2 without choking, and the rest is history.
I wanted something short and unique and this was somewhat pronounceable with a vowel in the middle
I have the user name “aeao” on Xbox. Just 4 letters. One day it’ll be worth millions!
Picked a random space word and a random object in the room at the time.
My avatar was created by me a long time ago based on the “Astro” part of my username.
Just being honest and upfront, no reason to question otherwise.
I really liked watching B-grade 90s-00s SciFi movies with my dad when I was a kid. That was the name of one that came out around the time I made a reddit account, I don’t know if I ever even watched it, it just sounded like a good username. Reminds me, I should probably make a new lemmy account that’s not tied to the same name
I had just heard the expression: “It helps the general effort.” It was in a Discworld audiobook. It made me think: “Yeah, I could use some help right now.” That was still rattling around in my head when I had to come up with a username. I don’t remember what I was having trouble with, so I guess that worked out.
Took the name I use everywhere online, put an _, and chose the lowest number I could, which I do on basically every platform
I turn things.
“We all turn the wheel… I am the one who decides the way in which it turns.”
I’m a… doctor lady.
Despite what you might think my name has a story. The first part has to do with the sound you would hear right before you died in an early FPS game, and the second part was the clan I was a part of at the time (happy). None of my name has to do with drugs.
I chose my username when I was still a teenager, originally with the meaning that I’m a nerd, but not like an amazing or extremely smart nerd, nor extremely awkward. Just your average guy with autism and nerdy on particular subjects.
I’ve mostly kept with it because it’s how most of my online friends know me, and I still think it’s part of my identity, although I’ve since developed interests that a stereotypical nerd might not have such as cycling, mountain biking, travelling and hiking.
