Obligatory “not today” disclaimer: actually fucked up over two decades ago, but found out today.

At the dawn of theinternet, I made an account on imgur. I figured (correctly) that I wasn’t going to use it often enough for the username to matter much, so I just went with the first part of my email adress and a number four times.

Turns out that there is such a thing as nazi number code and it’s never a good idea to use an even number of 8s for usernames when you’re not a nazi.

TL;DR: Didn’t know about nazi code, accidentally selected an imgur username ending with the equivalent of a double Hitler salute

  • immibis
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    11 year ago

    @Blamemeta and I am using a Twitter-style server, which links you when replying. I am not sure if the link is required, but Twitter wouldn’t show you the reply if it wasn’t linked.

    • @Blamemeta
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      -31 year ago

      Maybe Im wong, but you’ve seen my replys right? And I haven’t been linking. I think lemmy is its own thing at the moment.

      • immibis
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        11 year ago

        @Blamemeta I am talking to you from a Twitter interface called Pleroma. I can see your replies to me because Lemmy will send them to me simply because they are replies. I am not sure if Pleroma wil send replies back to Lemmy if they don’t link.

        • @Blamemeta
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          -31 year ago

          It works on the website, so i think its just a regular feature of lemmy