I don’t mean my username! Yours!

I guess this is more of a game and maybe not strictly the right place. But, the idea is to make a top level reply with you asking ‘guess’ or saying ‘:)’ or what have you, and everyone else should answer what they think the username means or refers to, without looking any words or concepts up! Off the cuff, what do you think it means when you see this person’s username?

Not sure about the mobile apps, but if you hover over someone’s name in Lemmy it will show their username if they have a display name set. My username is quite boring and straightforward, but I like seeing other people’s weird usernames especially on semi-anon places.

Bonus: What do you visually think when you read it? Even if you misread it as a typo, what did you imagine when you read it & saw their avatar?

  • Nina@lemmy.mlOP
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    1 year ago

    a small russet potato! and 08, would be a bit young if it was when you were born, so when you graduated school? Could just be a number of course

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      1 year ago

      Certainly a good guess! It actually comes from the fact that my name is Russ[ell], and my name comes directly from my father so I’m “Russell Jr”. Then the number 08 comes from my birth date, which is the 8th of March!

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        1 year ago

        Ah! I didn’t think about 08 ever being simply the day of your birthday instead of year, that very interesting.