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by lloeki 2854 days ago
TIL "88" stands for a neo-nazi thing. Lucky 10000 I guess.

A little bit of trivia: turns out in France a "département" is a country subdivision which receives two-digit codes, and it's quite common for people to include that in their online identity pseudonyms as a suffix. 88 is the Vosges department[0].

EDIT: Given the ambiguity, I do not support the use of the "88" thing at all, yet one cannot detract from the fact that cultural context and localization is a tricky subject. Even as a location thing I was not supporting it anyway as it's a terrible practice, being leaky information-wise.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vosges_(department)