More often than not, the best way to hide is to simply blend in with the crowds – this also encompasses one’s choice for a username. It is relatively simple to make a single throwaway account – just come up with a username, and off you go – however, if one makes throwaway accounts often, the task of thinking of a unique, and non-identifiable username can become a challenge. I would argue that poeple would often resort to using a pattern employing small changes for all subsequent usernames. Such patterns can be identified to a specific user if all users have their own unique patterns.

How can one reliably generate many unique-but-normal, and non-pattern-identifiable usernames?

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Yup that’s where my username came from

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(👁 ͜ʖ👁)

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It does.

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What the fuck. I never knew Bitwarden had a username gen until I went to checked to see if it did, and I immediately notice it

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It’s fairly recent, and I don’t think they advertise it. It appeared one day in the generator. 😆

I don’t think it’s particularly good, but it’s something!

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Must be a new feature. I developed a client for BW 6 months ago, and this was definitely not a thing.

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$ diceware -n2

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And your username has enlightened me that the fediverse lets us have spaces in our usernames (?)

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Boost doesn’t seem to support display names other than on the profile page. It does, however, tell me that your account was created 6th of june 1923 :p

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I like the ambiguity.

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Use a password generator in a password manager for the username AND password. Bitwarden is free.

Use a temporary email for email signups. getnada.com works fine, but so do many others.

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Skiff is great. They even generate an @random.maskmy.id so you can type anything before @. It’s nothing new but great since you can set 5 static aliases also.

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Random nicknames are not recommended, they are unique identifiers, it is better to use nicknames of famous people or movies, video games, etc., because it makes it difficult to find them on the web, especially if different ones are used on each site.

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this is a really good idea

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