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?
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.
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.
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.
Or for even more work, use a password manager to generate a super secure password, and use that password as your username
I sometimes use MAC addresses as usernames.
Bitwarden has a username generator, doesn’t it?
It does.
Yup that’s where my username came from
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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.
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.
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.
May not be popular….
But Apple can use hide my email, similar to Bitwarden.
So there’s another option
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
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.
It misunderstood your question.
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
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.
My neural-ass brain smells pattern
I just steal an idea from something somebody else is already using on the platform I’m going to. If it’s going to be public facing, anyway.
English word + four numbers
That’s what you think, Michael
Good usernames are Google, Yahoo or Barrelroll, this is fun when someone searches for you by nickname
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Try random real words until you hit one that’s free! Those are the most satisfying usernames anyway imo haha
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
