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?
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.
this is a really good idea
Go to reddit, pick a username from the front page, use that. Any searching into your use of it will lead to that front page post and its reposts on click mills.
There’s user name generators. Even fantasy name generators too so it’s not a weird jumble of letters and numbers like a password.
I let Bitwarden generate my usernames for throwaway accounts. I don’t care if my username can be identified as Bitwarden-generated.
English word + four numbers
That’s what you think, Michael
Well I love your name 😍 one of the best characters
Good usernames are Google, Yahoo or Barrelroll, this is fun when someone searches for you by nickname
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I don’t create anon accounts nearly as much as you say you do, but when I do I a correct-horse generator, and just pick the first two words and mash them together. It has never produced a conflict yet.
keepass2android’s password generator can generate these on mobile, and there are several for the command line.
I, too, was immediately going to recommend correct horse. It is random and it works.
Try random real words until you hit one that’s free! Those are the most satisfying usernames anyway imo haha
Pick a random book from your shelf.
- Open at a random page. Take the first word on the left page.
- Open at another random page. Take the first word on the left page
Repeat for as many words you like. Discard words you don’t like. Slam the words you like together.
Examples:
- thickestneedhelped
- ritestayoutdoors
- passedthejust
I see a pattern here…
I normally use the lastpass username generator, though fair warning, they will try to sell you lastpass.
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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:
- AverageJoeBookworm
- EverydayMikeCasual
- CommonSarahSimpleton
- NormalNickEasygoing
- OrdinaryOliviaBasic
- BasicBrianHumble
- StandardSamanthaNormal
- TypicalTommyAverage
- RegularRachelCommon
- TraditionalTaylorEveryday
My neural-ass brain smells pattern
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
It misunderstood your question.
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
