I thought people on Lemmy would understand the pun of my nickname, but instead people assume I'm an asshole just based on my name being "go fuck yourself" to them.

I even tried adding $ to help make it more obvious it's not "fuck" but "fsck". Clearly, if you've never heard of fsck you're going to assume it's just some intentional misspelling of "fuck".

I regret my username now.

[–] CaptSneeze@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

It’s a good pun and you shouldn’t regret it! People who don’t get the joke are unobservant and can either realize and learn from their ignorance, or remain in the dark.

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I've long assumed the authors of fsck were having some childish fun in choosing the name. Personally, I'd be fine with people routinely making asses of themselves by jumping to conclusions, and acting upon them. I'd even give them a chance to save themselves from embarrassment by putting an explanation in my profile "for those unaware."

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I only new fish, the shell, many people might be in the same situation

[–] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

fsck is a command for "file system check" to check for drive errors.

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 4 points 2 days ago

Today I learned!