This has probably been asked before but I wanted to add another layer/an alternative.
So, I ask, where did your username/pseudonym/nickname originate from? What’s the meaning behind it?
Or alternatively, which is the most creative/interesting nickname origin you have come across?
I like captain Picard.
All of Lemmy knows. Never stop. Your account is basically a cultural heritage site at this point.
Mine stands for “Divided by Zer0”, based on the programming error “division by zero”. Amusingly, people keep assuming it stands for “database zero” or “dragonball zero”.
TIL. I don’t know why I never questioned that or the instance name.
Holy shit you’re the guy. Keep being based.
Are you friends with count zero :-) ?
Another computer error.
Aw man, a great William Gibson reference.
Hah no never heard of them :D
From Willian Gibsons (the guy who coined ‘Cyberspace’) book Count Zero, if you put zero on the interrupt on address zero you’ll just get stuck in an neverending cycle.
And it was the chosen nick of Bobby in the book.
Ah right, that did sound familiar been decades since I read that book 😅
I know this, but I still always read it as “bulldozer” for some reason.
Birch, please.
I’m a squirrel.
and I’m a tuna!
Hello!
Caveman eat tuna
Hi tuna!
My username is literal. I’m literally a wood scientist. Or more specifically, I’m a current PhD student in civil engineering and wood science. Identifying Wood by Hoadley was actually a textbook in one of the courses I took.
That’s awesome, keep up the wood work ;)
I do quite a lot of that as well. In fact, woodworking was what made me first consider wood science as a field of study.
I take your wood and I burn it down. (I’m a PhD fire scientist)
Not as many as you might think.
Take a guess 😅
Ironic name like calling a large person Tiny.
Clearly you are a young whippersnapper!
Mine is my password I use for all my accounts. It is very convenient for the frequent times I forget it. I can just come here and there it is.
g8 b8 m8
How many login attempts did you just receive?
I wish there was a way I could tell.
I got onto Reddit back in the day for the electronic music production subreddits. There was an old Daft Punk interview during the big Ultra Music festival days where they made a joke that all EDM music was made by just one guy, Eric David Morris.
Join us at !musicproduction@sh.itjust.works
thanks!!! I didn’t know this existed, subbed
Great! It was unmoderated for a while but I recently took it over and I’m hoping to breathe some life into it.
Hahahahaha I love it!
Observing the internet from my toilet.
Aren’t we all? 🤔
This is gold, what a poet you are
Nice try.
😏
Resol - can mean a number of different things. It’s the first 5 letters of the word “resolution”. It’s also the word “loser” spelled backwards. It’s two notes on a keyboard (D and G in Anglo-Saxon music notation). And it just looks and sounds cool in my opinion.
van - the Dutch word meaning “of” or “from”. Note that I am not referring to actual vans (the German equivalent being “von”, which also appears in a lot of names). Also I prefer spelling that word completely in lowercase.
Lemmy - isn’t it obvious? It’s this wonderful website.
Put them together, and you get “Resol van Lemmy”. It sounds pretty nice, don’t you think? Especially since I really hate my real name.
/dev/urandomMy poochie was clinically depressed
At first I lurked on my boyfriend’s account. We had both left Reddit during the API debacle, but I wasn’t ready to rejoin social media yet, so he hopped on Lemmy first.
But as he shared links and news and memes with me, and I scrolled the comments, I started wanting to participate. The first few times I felt drawn to comment (but didn’t yet), I wanted to ask people what the reasoning was behind their thoughts. That stuff is interesting to me.
So when I finally sat down and made an account for myself, it was the first thought in my head. I haven’t found myself asking anybody about their reasoning since then, but I still like the name.
What’s your reasoning for not asking someone’s reasoning? Or in other words, if the reasoning behind their thoughts is interesting then why stop before your started?
Also sorry i just have lots of questions. Was there a certain type of comment that you wanted to know reasoning behind, or just in general? For instance were you wanting to understand hateful comments, or political perspectives outside your own? That sort of thing
Neat username regardless!
Pretty much all of the above. Sometimes it was a silly comment or argument that didn’t quite make sense. Sometimes it was like, “what are you trying to say?” but specifically asking for one’s reasoning helps clarify things.
I still might ask it some time, but I’ve found the environment here to be more hostile to rational thought than I’d originally expected… which was a sad discovery. A lot of people seem to react without first comprehending what they’re reading.
Also, thank you!
