Error: MongoError: bad auth: Authentication failed - mongodb

Question

You might be trying to tell me to "change my password" or "remove brackets, these <>"
I have done both. I have made sure that the password I'm using is correct.
Here is the URI:
mongodb+srv://user:pass#notlbot.iclv0tm.mongodb.net/?retryWrites=true&w=majority
no, my username isnt 'user' and my password also is not 'pass'
I don't know what to do from here, though it may be important to note I am trying to connect from a Linodes server. I'm using AWS to host Atlas.
at writeOrBuffer (node:internal/streams/writable:389:12)
at _write (node:internal/streams/writable:330:10)
at MessageStream.Writable.write (node:internal/streams/writable:334:10)
at TLSSocket.ondata (node:internal/streams/readable:754:22)
at TLSSocket.emit (node:events:527:28)
at addChunk (node:internal/streams/readable:315:12)
at readableAddChunk (node:internal/streams/readable:289:9)
at TLSSocket.Readable.push (node:internal/streams/readable:228:10)
at TLSWrap.onStreamRead (node:internal/stream_base_commons:190:23) {
ok: 0,
code: 8000,
codeName: 'AtlasError'
}