votes are in and we are going with SamXavia as my display name now.

#displayname #name #user

What should I change my name on here to?

#DisplayName #FediverseName #Name #Fediverse #Question #Poll #Southampton #Vote #democracy

wait i just realized i don't have ​:mima_rule:​ in my #displayname, probably forgot to add it back when i changed back my display name from syuilo ​:mima_derp:​

I found this helpful while searching and tweaked it... Image for honesty.
"Simple text searches return only posts you've written/ favorited/ boosted, or where you were mentioned, (+ matching usernames, display-names, or hashtags)."
#searching #mastodon #help #favourited #favorited #boosted #tooted #displayname #username

Does anyone else find it weird that people are putting the Twitter verified bluecheck as a custom emoji into their display names?

Like, is it a joke?

Is it a fuck-you to the new owner

Is it because they were verified before?

It's strange the amount of dissonance it brings up when I see it.

If you added it to your displayname, I'm curious: why and what for?

#twitter #bluecheck #displayname #customemoji #mastodon #profiles

#username
Paralithodes is a genus of king crabs, from 'para'+'lithode' i.e "resembling a stone." I wanted a break from using my name, & being like a stone to me reflects on both positive & negative qualities I see in myself.

#displayname
it's me, James but streamlined & efficient for Modern Consumers...I refuse to remove my precious 🦀 from the early days when many ppl put checkmark-parody emoji in their display names. Carcified is carcinization (the process of becoming crab-like)+verified.

#username #displayname

My first name (ok, middle, but it's the only name I've ever used irl).

I'm usually anummabrooke on social media, and that was my original Masto handle. But I found that I liked just being a more stripped-down version of my self here, aside from my career stuff and related braaaaanding.

#displayname #username

"Fritillaria" is new for mastodon. "Fritillary" is my favorite word. A fritillary is a flower in the lily family (genus "Fritillaria"-- aha!), and also a type of butterfly. These words have a magical, whimsical sound-- the Great Spangled Fritillary (butterfly) must surely be the name of a fairy monarch. "Fritillus" (which sounds awkwardly like something fritillaries might do for <ahem> intimate pleasure) is Latin for "chessboard", and refers to the checkered pattern.

#displayname It's my name. I expect I should update the emoji bit, though, because now that we've moved the order is 👵🏻 🌲 🏖 .

This 👵🏻 kind of misses incidentally driving within sight of the water while running daily errands. We're still within an hour of salt water, really not bad considering it took at least half an hour to get from the old place to actually barefoot-in-surf, but still.

#username (and #displayname ) are something i came up with when i was six in 1998!!! I've never changed screennames. :3c I'm catterfly forever and ever!

#displayname
I really like using "tom h" b/c it's got a primary school vibe (and is used that way in Never Let Me Go which is a book I like). "at rest" is b/c I've been travelling a lot recently but now I've stopped, and it's a reference to the last of Updike's Rabbit books, where Rabbit dies (probs don't read those books tho, they're proper misogo)

#username #displayname

http://ajin.wikia.com/wiki/Kaito

#displayname a song by oneohtrix point never

#displayname the e is backwards cos i'm COOL and QUIRKY

incidentally i also hate the name james ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#displayname "Malformed Toots Guy" was because I kept tooting wrong from Tusky, changed it out of frustration with myself and because I have no better ideas and it still amuses me I stuck with it.

Don't think I'd revert back to repeating my real name again, it doesn't feel right tying masto so strongly to a real name honestly but I have a habit of tying my (public) identities together on this kinda thing

#username I was trying to come up with a name for my blog and didn't really have any specific set of subject matter in mind. So, I thought, "Well, there's no main point to what I'll be writing. That should be the name. It's... _sans_ point." Plus the domain was available. After I bought it, I realized I'd have to spell it for everyone. :-/

#displayname My real name. I am who I am.

#displayname / #username
gather round everyone, this is a long and intricate story, with many twists and turns, that spans all the way from the creation of the universe to the celestial bureaucracy that constrain even the gods themselves
also, there are star elves
and evil geometric shapes
and
wait, this is a thinly veiled spoiler for Raymond E. Feist's books, from which the name is shamelessly yoinked
huh
imagine that

#username my initials
#displayname my name

Oh and I mean my #displayname is… uh *blushes, hides under a small cybre, and makes that chittering noise like when you see a birb but it's behind a window so you can't eat it*

my #username is the same as my #displayname and they both mean me. I've never been good at--hmm, original sounds/words, so when I think of a "true name" for myself, what comes to mind is a combination of grey and green; grey of fog/overcast, green of abundant foliage in a rainy climate. I use "green" as my public handle, because my green hair makes it easy for folks to remember; "grey" is my surname in that context.