The threadiverse is small (compared to other major platforms) and I often see usernames that I recognize. How well do we notice each other around here?
I’ll start… my name’s “MrShankles” and I do be commenting/posting from time to time
I recognize a few dozen usernames on sight, most of which have already been mentioned. Voyager tracks how many times you’ve up/downvoted each person, which makes it easy to recognize accounts after a while.
Though looking through the comments here there are only three posters who I’ve never upvoted, two of whom have the new user tag, and almost all have two or three digit upvote totals. The Fediverse is definitely small and held up by the frequent posters.
I generally don’t recognize usernames and don’t look at them too much
There’s the guy who uses thorns (who I have tagged as Nigel þornberry)
There’s maybe a half-dozen frequent posters who I’m genuinely not sure if they’re masterful trolls, some kind of AI training bots, or just really need to go touch grass (preferably on their way to a therapist’s office.)
There’s one dude whose username just happened to stick out to me after having a random conversation or two with him and seeing him being a generally pretty decent dude around Lemmy, I tagged him “this guy seems cool” at some point, and at some point it occurred to me that he might appreciate knowing that, so I shot him a message, and sure enough he did. I now consider him to be a pretty good friend, which is a new experience for me, I’ve never really been one to have online friends, I (somehow) do pretty well at making friends in meatspace and have never really felt a need to seek out an online friendship.
There’s a handful of people who have said some incredibly dumb shit that I’ve tagged (for example one dude who I tagged “Tankie, down vote and ignore” although the last few times I’ve seen him pop up it seems like he may have mellowed out a bit, so good for him)
Nigel þornberry
Made me laugh :D
Fully-qualified usernames:
There’s the guy who uses thorns (who I have tagged as Nigel þornberry)
That’d be @Sxan@piefed.zip.
þat is indeed þe guy
I also love how bent-out-of-shape people get over the thorns.
I haven’t stalked his profile, but I feel like every time I’ve seen him come up he’s also seemed like a pretty cool and reasonable dude (I suppose it’s possible he’s off being a dick in the parts of Lemmy I don’t frequent, but I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt)
I notice a couple of people :)
Rimu is awesome and I use piefed every day.
Sunshine ans Blaze are nice and usually have insightful comments. Or memes.
Theres pmjv with awsome comics and ART https://analognowhere.com/techno-mage/on_the_frontier/
When I start recognizing a username it’s usually because that person is about to get blocked. Applies to quite many users mentioned here too.
I think the small size of the platform is a bit of an issue in this case. The only way to not get “famous” here is by constantly having to make new accounts.
I recognize D_a_X :)
Fully-qualified username: @D_a_X@feddit.org
I could recognise a violet or PugJesus post without nametags! I enjoy both posters’ content although violet’s is a bit concerning and less educational, lol. Oh, and the guy who only posts anti-Western narratives memes, he always gets downvoted but he keeps at it like Marx’s strongest soldier 😅. There was also this maniac called Satan’sSomethingSomething I just had to block on two different accounts. Finally, there are several posters I have personally tagged cause I regularly see eye to eye with them, or at least I consider reasonable, prosocial and capable of having a normal conversation (flaxvert, Maeve, VikingHippie, among others). 👍
Fully-qualified usernames:
- Did violet08_@lemmy.world elsewhere.
- Did PugJesus@piefed.social elsewhere.
- Did SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world elsewhere.
- Couldn’t identify the “flaxvert” user you mentioned.
- @Maeve@lemmygrad.ml
- @VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf
Yeah, you’ve got the list of the same people I generally clock as known users.
Ty for your service!
I thought I posted too much on my alt on another instance.
Glad I don’t see the username here, cause at least that means I wasn’t super annoying lmao
I think everyone here has already posted all the names I usually see.
There’s also stamets, though I haven’t seen them active in places I visit in awhile. Also a few users with custom names like Admiral Patrick or Riker Maneuver.
Fully-qualified usernames:
- Did Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com elsewhere.
- @AdmiralPatrick@lemmy.world
- Not sure about “Riker Maneuver”. The most-recently-active likely account hasn’t been commenting in years. You might be thinking of The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world, which some other users mentioned.
same. I will literally be adjusting my online presence based on this thread.
This is gonna sound really terrible, but… I generally don’t recognize people by name so much… maybe something dyslexia related? I think there are a couple of rare exceptions, like the user with two letters and then four numbers in their name.
I recognize lots of avatars, as I scroll around, but I don’t generally register the names or even descriptions of the images, just kind of like… my brain just remembers purplish-blob shape, red glowy circle, monochromatic goblet.
Oh, and dancing banana, and blue name furry. I actually remember his, it’s Kolanki I think
All of you users with no avatar, go get one so I remember you all please! It’s an accessability aid in a way :p
Wait, Lemmy has avatars? I use an app 99% of the time, and the app doesn’t have them so I never realized that was a thing, lol. Whoops.
Huh. I never remember they’re an option on lemmy because they don’t show on Boost, but that’s a really good point for accessibility. Thanks for pointing it out!
I too am an avatar fan.
All of you users with no avatar, go get one so I remember you all please! It’s an accessability aid in a way :p
Frankly, this could be implemented client-side. If there’s no avatar set by the remote user, then have the client or Web UI or whatever hash the username/home instance pair and then use the bits of that hash as inputs to procedurally-generate an image. There are a number of forum systems that do this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identicon
An Identicon is a visual representation of a hash value, usually of an IP address, that serves to identify a user of a computer system as an effectively random form of avatar while protecting the user’s privacy. The original Identicon was a 9-block graphic, and the representation has been extended to other graphic forms by third parties.
(Note that using an IP as an input to the hash, as is mentioned here, is not really a good idea, since the IPv4 address space is small enough that one can reverse the hash by brute-forcing it to obtain the user’s IP address, and the IPv6 address space is only sparsely-used, so I bet that one could do the same there with a bit more work.)
There’s a guy who thinks I’m some kind of troll or bot and tries to “call me out” by name every once in a while, I suppose that counts.
Personally, I try not to pay close attention to usernames - I want to engage with what’s said, not form opinions about the people saying it.
Do they have strong opinions about AI and tendency to dig through your message history?
They do indeed. There is perhaps a possibility we’re thinking of the same fellow.
Truly one of the strangest people I’ve ever encountered here. I finally gave in and just blocked them after every attempt at a coherent exchange failed miserably. Nothing I say registers and everything I get back has nothing to do with what was said before. I can’t even accuse them of being a bot because I have better discussions with actual bots.
Ladybutterfly or something like that
Fully-qualified username: @LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone
There are a few names I informally had good vibes for. I started using tagging to keep track of folks a bit. This especially helped with the opposite because blocking someone who is grossely bad is an easy decision but I like to give the benefit of the doubt. Now I can tag. It kinda gives me this this I wanted from trust cafe where you can rate verything but instead I tag it.
I feel like I recognise maybe 80% of the posters I see…
I tend to recognize usernames I see at least once a day, if they’re phrases or words. Not if they’re like strings of random characters…
I always recognize my admin. *waves
There’s a 4/5 chance that Ada notices me?? 😯
I low key know everyone from tenforward and I love them all. ♥️
What happened to flying squid? They had some health problems and then talked about moving and then disappeared.
If you check in lemvotes you can see some activity from time to time, so I don’t think they are dead. It could be a federation issue but they at least appear to have logged in and had some vote activities in December.
Regardless they did not have a healthy relationship with Lemmy. They were averaging something on the order of 15 comments, per hour, per day. That’s a comment every 4 minutes, all day, every day, for years.
Idk. We should still probably build something to remember them by. Or to piss on, depending on how you viewed them. They were very political and were doing a lot of “pre blaming” for the, at the time, election which hadn’t happened yet. I think it may have broken them.
I think it may have broken them.
sure as fuck broke me.
whatever hope I had left in humanity putrefied.
They spent a lot of time traveling and waiting for medical tests and results with their mom. I attributed the activity to the stress and excess time on their hands.
I think this place wasn’t too healthy for them mentally, and I’m fairly certain after moving they just bowed out of coming back and focused on rebuilding their life in a new country, or at least I hope they did. Lemmy also skews heavily US American (less so than reddit but still largely) and so maybe they just wanted to disconnect from things here in the USA. If I was in a new place I think I’d spend more time trying to get my bearings locally than reading endless news about the place I just left.
@flyingsquid@lemmy.world
Last I saw, moved to the UK, was looking at getting a job there, and I assume stopped using the Threadiverse to dedicate more time to real life. Doesn’t look like he’s been commenting in a year:
https://lemmy.world/post/25764717/15184325
I told a member of an LGBT organization in York, UK that I would be happy for any help I can get regarding finding me a job above the UK family visa income threshold so my gay daughter can stay here longer than six months after he offered to look over my CV and give me pointers… for the glory of the empire?
Flying Squid was an auto-block for me, as soon as I made my account. He always used to ban me because he couldn’t win arguments with me in the comments.
Edit to spill the tea:
Hello Lemmy.world admin team, I am writing to complain about the conduct of the moderator FlyingSquid.
On two occasions I have had negative interactions with FlyingSquid on the /world community, both times he has used, or threatened to use, his moderator powers against me, because of his personal disagreements with me.
I am happy to refer you to both conversations:
In this conversation, we had a long conversation about laws and politics. Personally, I feel he acted in bad faith on several occasions throughout our conversation, in my opinion, he was trying to bait me into getting upset so he could righteously ban me.
And your silly prediction is wrong. I am not going to ban you for this despite the incivility rule violation. I am just going to stop talking to you.
But you have just earned yourself the eye of a moderator who will not tolerate your rule-breaking with anyone else. Including if I see any in your recent history.
More recently, we had a conversation today:
Again, in this conversation, he was, in my opinion, highly rude, dismissive and arguing in bad faith. He even admitted as much. I said I wasn’t interested in talking with him, he continued to push me for an answer, and then said:
You didn’t let me down, because I knew you didn’t actually have an answer
I completely understand that sometimes people get heated or struggle to deal with arguments where they care about the topic, so I am totally willing to look past that. However, I am not willing to look past his abuse of power.
What a bullshit cop-out. I have asked you multiple times what the next step is and you’re now claiming I’m not interested?
That’s two lies you’ve told about me now. That is coming close to trolling. This is seemingly a pattern for FlyingSquid - goading people he disagrees with into becoming frustrated with his bad-faith arguments, then accusing them of “trolling” when the people he experiences push-back, and using that as an excuse to ban someone he disagrees with.
I was writing a response to his post pointing out that he was arguing in bad faith when I accidentally submitted it half-way through, when he suspended me for “trolling”.
I do not believe that he has the disposition to be a moderator if he gets so upset at a polite discussion that he feels compelled to use moderator powers to silence dissent. I go out of my way to be as polite, kind and compassionate as possible and to give people the benefit of the doubt, but I do not believe we should allow those in a position of trust or power to use that to settle their personal disputes. I know there has been some issues with that recently regarding the vegan community so I am hopeful that you will do the right thing and either remove his moderator powers or at the very least let him know that his abuse of powers is not tolerated.
I would prefer not to make a community spectacle out of this, hence the email.
Thanks and all the best,
Yeah, squid did deep and lasting damage to the fediverse with how they used bans to editorialize communities and those scars remain implicit today.
At the same time they were a prolific and dedicated poster and that’s huge in a small community like ours. I didn’t like them, at all, and I think they had some deep problems around politics, identity, and some very weird narcissistic tendencies and victims complex. But I think they were also an important member of the community, if one who shouldn’t have played the role of moderator.
We used to see a MargotRobbie but they stopped. Dunno why. They committed to the bit, though.
MargotRobbie
Fully-qualified username: @MargotRobbie@lemmy.world
