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

  • Reyali@lemmy.world
    7·
    3 hours ago

    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.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      1·
      37 minutes ago
      • Avatars (image which shows in full size on user page and thumbnail form by their name in the Lemmy Web UI)
      • Display names (a user can have a different name appear in place of their username, which is how some users stick Unicode in their name. I don’t like this feature, because you need the “real” username, not the displayname, to reference users in such a way that Lemmy will generate a hyperlinked to them, and I think that referencing users is complicated enough to create a usability barrier for people without the extra complexity).
      • A banner (which displays on the user page and is larger than the avatar image)
      • Bio text.

      @Sxan@piefed.zip, which was mentioned in another comment in this thread, is a good example of someone who makes use of all four.

    • Tja@programming.dev
      1·
      1 hour ago

      Same here. And the same for reddit, I was surprised when I learned reddit had avatars. I’m surprised that lemmy has them, too.