I don’t mean my username! Yours!
I guess this is more of a game and maybe not strictly the right place. But, the idea is to make a top level reply with you asking ‘guess’ or saying ‘:)’ or what have you, and everyone else should answer what they think the username means or refers to, without looking any words or concepts up! Off the cuff, what do you think it means when you see this person’s username?
Not sure about the mobile apps, but if you hover over someone’s name in Lemmy it will show their username if they have a display name set. My username is quite boring and straightforward, but I like seeing other people’s weird usernames especially on semi-anon places.
Bonus: What do you visually think when you read it? Even if you misread it as a typo, what did you imagine when you read it & saw their avatar?
I’m in
It just sounds like a name, but I’ll admit I misread it as Finlin (how my weird mouth says Finland) pretty quickly.
Ah, interesting :D Actually, it is a name, but from a fantasy novel
Yeaah mine’s really hard to make any sense of. It was an automatically generated username some time back, and then I kept using it all over the place because it was kinda short and still kinda unique. I’d love some suggestions on how to pronounce it though, no clue in that regard!
Sea engine
Yeah mine is intentionally misleading. It’s a concatenation of the beginning letters of my first- and surname.
Let’s give this a shot then!
foosel, I can’t figure out a meaning. It makes me think it would sound like a type of cute weasel. That’s very weird for me to think that of a word that I don’t know, but it is what it is!
It admittedly is a bit of a tricky one…
spoiler
It’s a combination of the metasyntactic variable foo and the German word for “lint”, which is “Fussel”.
But I really like the cute weasel idea as well 😄
Give it a shot if you like
Magus makes me think of a mage for some reason? I don’t remember the word root of why that would be. So, mage bear!
I would second that, I also immediately had the “mage” association.
Who can figure it out?
I like @misnina@lemmy.ml’s interpretation. But I had to comment on yours since mine is only 2 letters different. Though mine is pretty obvious where it came from :)
Honestly thought it sounded cool, like a realistic kernel service.
My username means, I am Steve.
Steve is Steve… sounds too convenient to be true.
Right? I’m highly skeptical here as well 🤨
