What should be used for anonymous usernames?

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?

GreyTechnician,

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  • Honytawk, (edited )

    Or if you want to be really fancy, you can just pick one of the Fantasy name generators: www.fantasynamegenerators.com

    Draknolf Frozen-Fur, a Nord from Skyrim has a nice ring to it.

    python,

    Try random real words until you hit one that’s free! Those are the most satisfying usernames anyway imo haha

    thebardingreen,
    @thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz avatar

    Model: Wizard-Vicuna-13B-Uncensored (running locally).

    Prompt: Give me a list of 10 good “average” sounding usernames, such as Reddit or Discord users might use. Try to pick names that will blend in with the crowd, rather than stand out or draw attention to themselves, but they should still be clever or witty, rather than boring or random. Please do NOT use actual reddit users names. Come up with original names. Blend in some random words, if you have to.

    Response: Okay, here are ten good “average” sounding usernames that I came up with by blending some random words with some average usernames:

    1. AverageJoeBookworm
    2. EverydayMikeCasual
    3. CommonSarahSimpleton
    4. NormalNickEasygoing
    5. OrdinaryOliviaBasic
    6. BasicBrianHumble
    7. StandardSamanthaNormal
    8. TypicalTommyAverage
    9. RegularRachelCommon
    10. TraditionalTaylorEveryday
    floofloof,

    It misunderstood your question.

    myself,

    My neural-ass brain smells pattern

    Moonrise2473,

    They don’t seem good at all, long and weird

    I don’t know what text the LLM sniffed, but those aren’t average at all

    shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit,

    This is a good example of hallucination, both by the AI and by OP. The first and third word of each line is a synonym for average.

    LesserAbe,

    One time I asked chatgpt to come up with a list of random street addresses, and the first couple were fine, then one was like “123 cherry street”, then each following address was like “777 apple lane” “888 banana ave” and so on. Which was wrong but also pretty charming I thought.

    Hephoh2,

    $ pwgen 8 100

    guyrocket, (edited )
    @guyrocket@kbin.social avatar

    Do random word generators exist?

    ETA: https://randomwordgenerator.com/

    vaselined,

    They do. You can use passphrase generator of any pw manager. Bitwarden has a nice one

    guyrocket,
    @guyrocket@kbin.social avatar

    Interesting. I also found the url above.

    Dave,
    @Dave@lemmy.nz avatar

    I normally use the lastpass username generator, though fair warning, they will try to sell you lastpass.

    LUHG_HANI,
    @LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world avatar

    You’re still using lastpass?

    Dave,
    @Dave@lemmy.nz avatar

    No, I don’t use lastpass at all. Just the username generator.

    LUHG_HANI,
    @LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world avatar

    Ohh, bitwarden has one also.

    Dave,
    @Dave@lemmy.nz avatar

    Does it? As far as I can tell, the only option is for a random word, which isn’t really the same.

    LUHG_HANI,
    @LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world avatar

    Yeh it’s just random word and 4 numbers if you ask for the numbers.

    Dave,
    @Dave@lemmy.nz avatar

    Yeah, the lastpass one does random letters with options such as being pronouncable.

    LUHG_HANI,
    @LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world avatar

    That’s good, I just wouldn’t give lastpass the privilege of taking out my trash at this point.

    AnnaFrankfurter,

    I usually just use a fake name generator to create a name and use it as a username this takes care of my inability to think of random usernames, birth date and other stuff that most websites these days ask. And it also makes me look like another dumb idiot and not a l33t haxor.

    pound_heap,

    I use SimpleLogin for email alias, and username usually has to be associated with email address. So I just use whatever SimpleLogin generates for me

    satanmat,

    May not be popular….

    But Apple can use hide my email, similar to Bitwarden.

    So there’s another option

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