• SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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      6013 days ago

      Without fail people with reddit usernames like “pleasant_excitement40506987” have dogshit opinions to people with usernames like “sack_slapper69” who’re always right.

          • Z_Poster365 [none/use name]
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            2013 days ago

            holy shit has that sub degraded over the past year or so, I was there today and there was a thread talking about how Russian Imperialism is just as bad as American Imperialism, and that the only “good guys” in Syria are the SDF/YPG.

            They’ve actually devolved into 2016 liberals

      • AmericaDelendaEst [comrade/them]
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        3213 days ago

        90% of them are literally just bots, most actual people will think up some kind of fucking username for themselves and not just let it auto generate

        • FreakingSpy [he/him]
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          13 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.

            • @redtea@lemmygrad.ml
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              312 days ago

              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]
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            813 days ago

            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]
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        1113 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