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?

Yesbutnotreally,

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  • jollyrogue,

    It does.

    AzureRT,
    @AzureRT@reddthat.com avatar

    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

    jollyrogue,

    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!

    just_another_person,

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

    evulhotdog,

    It’s been in the Chrome extension for at least a year.

    just_another_person,

    Must be client side only. TIL

    mojo,

    It’s really not all that different from a passphrase generator

    just_another_person,

    Well, the same thing, but just not part of the BW server API is all.

    trevor,

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  • just_another_person,

    It’s not a public project. It was based on their docs to be compliant though, much the same as the vaultwarden project.

    mojo,

    Yup that’s where my username came from

    sheogorath,

    (👁 ͜ʖ👁)

    shootwhatsmyname,
    @shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee avatar

    👁️ 👁️

    👅

    just_another_person,

    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.

    I2jgwh0hYtxrCZQ,

    I agree

    LUHG_HANI,
    @LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world avatar

    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.

    NightOwl,

    There’s user name generators. Even fantasy name generators too so it’s not a weird jumble of letters and numbers like a password.

    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.

    davel,
    @davel@lemmy.ml avatar

    $ diceware -n2

    UnfixableHappy

    $

    satanmat,

    May not be popular….

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

    So there’s another option

    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
    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.

    floofloof,

    It misunderstood your question.

    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.

    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.

    Moonrise2473,

    English word + four numbers

    TheOctonaut,

    That’s what you think, Michael

    Hephoh2,

    $ pwgen 8 100

    DirigibleProtein,

    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
    ExLisper,

    I see a pattern here…

    skullgiver, (edited )
    @skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl avatar

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  • LemmyKnowsBest, (edited )

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

    themeatbridge,

    I like the ambiguity.

    skullgiver, (edited )
    @skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl avatar

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  • JohnEdwa,

    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

    random65837,

    Don’t complicate simple, there’s millions of people making random shit usernames, the only ones that are going to wind up with a pattern are the people (trying) not too. Smack a bunch of buttons on your keyboard and call it a username. Done!

    Or if you want to make more work, every password manager at this point will generate random usernames.

    OldManBOMBIN,

    Or for even more work, use a password manager to generate a super secure password, and use that password as your username

    irreticent,

    I sometimes use MAC addresses as usernames.

    Zerush,
    @Zerush@lemmy.ml avatar

    Good usernames are Google, Yahoo or Barrelroll, this is fun when someone searches for you by nickname

    TheAnonymouseJoker,
    @TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml avatar

    refuses to elaborate

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