Why anonymous usernames matter
Many sign-ups don't need your real name. Forum accounts, throwaway services, niche social networks, and privacy-respecting platforms all work fine with an anonymous handle — and an anonymous handle limits the cross-site linkability of your activity.
Reusing the same username across every site is the username equivalent of password reuse: when one site leaks user-data, anyone with the leak can correlate that handle to every other service you've used it on. Unique anonymous usernames per service close that gap.