What do we call ourselves?

I like m@tes. I would want to stick with the pirate theme and in lots of the world, "mate" is a friend.

Love the idea of assuming we're all on the same side. Because we are.

Then the circled a is a good reminder.

This is solid stuff, db0.

Good one m@te

How about b@ts, as in "bats" referring to many things, among them:

• Landstreicher's translation of Stirner's "bats in the belfry" expression
• "Bats," referring to the expression of insanity for our neurodiverse and other friends
• Bats, the animals, live in dark caves and only come out at night (pejorative for us being internet nerds)
• It uses the @ symbol and fits all of your criteria
• Bats are cool

I love it

Except for the fact that I read it as user@domain

I like it!

Technically I think it should be M4735 or M4T35 in 1337/L33T, but that is nowhere near as readable for most folks.

Zer0s.

I'm a bit late but this is what I immediately thought of

Leech my seed!

... im sorry, rofl

... I proposed this as well, and another thing NaN is quite close to is... Naan bread, lol.

Basically a kind of flatbread, usually associated with India, sort of kind of like pita bread.

Its pronounced like... Non, at least the way I pronounce Non, as a PNW dialect English native speaker, not like Nan, as in Nanna, or other similar words to refer to a grandmother, or sometimes mother, different vowel sound.

that would be so fucking rad

I think the first two are... well they got more flair, more pizzazz than my suggestions!

Maybe you could ... go from diverrs to like... webdivers, or some flaired up spelling of that?

More of an old school / stereotypical cyberpunk way of saying you're doing a big deep dive into the net to find useful info, webdivers or netdivers.

Lmfao I kind of like db0s because if you pronounce it "oh" instead of 0 it's the default schema for all m$ databases.... Haha

This is the only one here that doesn't make me cringe

You'd have to give us your address!

I completely disagree. It's not tribalism, it's respecting coequal instance cultural differences. Each instance is self-governing, has an in group and an out group, and has culture associated with it as well as having voluntary association. If you want to erase individual instance identity and culture, good for you. Encourage that in your own instance or communities. We, as anarchists, pirates, neurodivergents and other things can decide these things for ourselves

Also makes it easier to remember.