• FreakingSpy [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        12 days ago

        If you create your account through the website instead of the app, it automatically generates an username and doesn’t let you change it for some reason.

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            Adding ‘Reddit’ to a search query is about the only remaining way to find useful information on the general internet but it only works if you view the old site. Reddit will break itself and the internet when it disables the old version. It will happen because they’ve slowly been killing the old version but hopefully they’ll be satisfied if enough normies use the new version. Absolute dogshit website other than that, though; those who regularly use the new site deserve it’s hostility.

        • QuietCupcake [any, they/them]@hexbear.net
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          Unless they changed it really recently, that’s just not true. Like AmericaDelendaEst, I only use old.reddit (and i only use reddit if I absolutely have to or if I’m in the mood to troll/spread leftist agitprop and subsequently get banned) but I’ve tried account creation on regular web reddit and old.reddit and in both cases it let’s you choose your own username. It always automatically suggests a pre-made autogenerated username but you don’t have to choose it.

          For anyone who wants to agitate on reddit and also stay truly anonymous, here is an excellent guide to doing so from @marcie@lemmy.ml

          https://hexbear.net/post/3789920

    • egg1918 [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      12 days ago

      I’m pretty sure those are usernames that reddit suggests before you pick your own, so a lot of bots have that name pattern