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[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

u/WordWord_1234 Usernames are sus af fuck

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Accounts whose profile page have urls starting with reddit.com/u are also sus.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can't really judge an account by those generic usernames, because that's the default format reddit generates unless a real human user decides to manually change it before locking it in.

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That seems a lot like a reason to judge those accounts as not people? More than accounts that don't match that format, anyway... Who uses an auto-generated username??

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

People can use auto-generated usernames if they want to. When I was new to Reddit, didn't know I was allowed to change the username before it finalized.