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[–] Amroth@feddit.it 33 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Their usernames are the random ones proposed by the platform, such as Lazy_Platform_34.

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[–] ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

bots.

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[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

I use diceware and random number generators to create my user names.

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[–] lseif@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago

or a randomly generated string of 5-6 letters, such as lseif

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