When I was growing up, there were a lot of lessons on staying safe online and data security, especially about using both a different password and a different username for each account. I still have most of my accounts under different services named differently! (And of course different passwords for everything too, hooray for password managers!)

If you happen to use different usernames for different things, how do you give them all names? Are they all themed about something you're interested in, are they just numbered (when I was in primary school, lots of people were lazy and had something like "alice1" "alice2"), or are they all just a random bunch of stuff with no order?

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[–] 3 points 8 hours ago*

If it's just a login that isn't an identity I'll ever have to see then I'll usually just let my password manager generate something random. For something like Lemmy they're whatever name comes to me at the moment. My current one here is a Simpsons reference that happened to be on my mind.

They need to be unrelated and have no order to get the benefit of being different, so Alice3 or "all start with the same letter" are out.

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