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
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
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.
@Sxan@piefed.zip, which was mentioned in another comment in this thread, is a good example of someone who makes use of all four.
Same here. And the same for reddit, I was surprised when I learned reddit had avatars. I’m surprised that lemmy has them, too.
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.
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
(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.)
Doesn’t stackoverflow do that? Or some other popular website… Slashdot?
Not Slashdot that I recall, and looking at it, looks like it still doesn’t, but it looks like Stack Overflow does.