Is full caps account names not normal ? (lemmy.today)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by THE_ANTIHERO@lemmy.today to c/casualconversation@lemmy.world

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LIKE_THIS ? And do i come of as some kinda culty weirdo ? I thought that looked formal and trademarky ? Am i a zoomer aldready out of touch and becoming cringe ? Should i change my accs to small letters but i'll lose my block history whuch is almost 1000 /c/ any way to back that up ?

Edit : also to get ahead on that matter yes i may or may not have had FULL_CAPS alts and may have felt like a troll but no chained accs like that has ever been created by me . (By chained i meant same name on different instance i pulled the term out of my ass just now enjoy 😂)

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[-] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 8 months ago

Never has all caps looked formal, has it?

[-] damium@programming.dev 4 points 8 months ago

Business systems from the 80s used to automatically convert everything name related to caps. It made it easier to do string matching which was generally case sensitive in the DB. It also made data entry easier as you just turn capslock on and type.

No so much formal as lazy semi-formal.

[-] THE_ANTIHERO@lemmy.today 2 points 8 months ago

Don't all the things like lawyers, teachers, companies etc have theirs in caps ?

[-] thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee 8 points 8 months ago

Short answer: no.

[-] THE_ANTIHERO@lemmy.today 1 points 8 months ago

Looong one ? Also i remember you from somewhere else do you have an alt or DID or somethin ?

[-] thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

I'm all over the Fediverse under this name and also @TeaHands@lemmy.world so could be either tbh. I did a lot of tech support in the early days of the big migration here :D