Technology
This is the official technology community of Lemmy.ml for all news related to creation and use of technology, and to facilitate civil, meaningful discussion around it.
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Rules:
1: All Lemmy rules apply
2: Do not post low effort posts
3: NEVER post naziped*gore stuff
4: Always post article URLs or their archived version URLs as sources, NOT screenshots. Help the blind users.
5: personal rants of Big Tech CEOs like Elon Musk are unwelcome (does not include posts about their companies affecting wide range of people)
6: no advertisement posts unless verified as legitimate and non-exploitative/non-consumerist
7: crypto related posts, unless essential, are disallowed
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That's the format of the usernames that Reddit suggests. That doesn't really mean much.
Yes, that's why you need to check the profiles and look for the criteria I listed.
I remember just one time where I falsely accused someone to be a bot based on that and I've done it about a hundred times.
It always struck me as odd that so many users on Reddit were using the default generation scheme. No other site I've been on has so few people caring about the name they pick