• force@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Never trust a default username

    [adjective] [noun] [3-4 digits] is always a sign of bad news, on social media and Xbox Live

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      6 months ago

      Cutesy auto generated names are too useful for bots, the lazy, and fans of cutesy name combos.

      Should have made defaults your approximate IP geolocation. I’m kidding of course for privacy reasons, but a little similar motivation to think about a better name during creation couldn’t hurt (looking at Reddit here).

      Edit: but hey - maybe it’s not desirable for one to be able to distinguish users. I wonder… nah, Reddit would never… 😒

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      6 months ago

      When you use “connect with Apple” it creates an account with a name constructed this way.

      You can change it afterwards but no one does.

      EDIT: Wait, is it the default Reddit way?

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        Yeah I think any account you create now has that as the default. Or at least did a few years ago.

        So it’s really more of a “many new accounts are bots” rather than “you can distinguish bots by this account name format”.