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 quite a few people.
I recognise SharkFucker420 for some reason …
i only see username@domain.tld on my client but still remember quite a lot of people. I guess like 10 or a bit more.
I’ve had a couple of people recognise me from previous comments I made. It really warmed my heart to hear. I don’t post often, but I do comment a fair amount.
I’ve been here for 2 years and I only recognize violet08 and the_Picard_maneuver. Oh and Nicole, the girl with glasses who wanted me
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.
He’s one of my favorites.
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 have snarked him about it, myself. I have no objection to overtly affected personal expression (no hypocrite I). It’s just that reading a thorn unexpectedly feels like stubbing my toe, but in my brain.
I don’t recognize anyone, I don’t focus on who says stuff but what is said. I ignore the user and the instance (like ignoring ads on websites) and read the content. Only when it’s uncanny pro Russia I check if it’s an ml user. I never block or tag, too much work.
If they comment/post a lot and use an avatar or have emojis in their display name, I probably recognize them.
Very few I recognize by name alone.
Hey :)
Names come and go. Givessomefucks is the only one that comes to mind. Mostly I just respond to the words. My client shows an upvote total. I guess I start to recognize names when someone states running that upvote total up.
Words are more important than identity. That’s why I’m on anonymous social media in the first place. I might be a cantankerous asshole in one thread because mood, and the next I’m offering advice with authenticity and lived experience. Those two posts might as well be written by different people.
I don’t buy into celebrity, no matter how small.
Fully-qualified username: @givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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 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/
Fully-qualified usernames:
- @rimu@piefed.social (the lead PieFed dev)
- @Sunshine@piefed.ca
- @Blaze@lazysoci.al
- @pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org (regarding the art, see !unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.org).
fyi https://lemmy.sdf.org/ has been down for a while
Jeez your good
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 was thinking the same thing.
The only usernames I recognise are the people I find insufferable.
I used to think that blocking that type of person led to being in an echochamber. More recently I’ve decided that echochamber or not - my participation here is a lot more enjoyable without them.
The thing is, if a user only ever comments “bUt ShE sUpPoRtEd GEnOcIde”, I’ve kind of received the message already so I can hang up the phone?
I don’t personally use Lemmy for nsfw stuff, but I’m never mad about MentalEdge’s posts when I’m cruising all.
Fully-qualified username: @MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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
Ty for your service!
Yeah, you’ve got the list of the same people I generally clock as known users.
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.
- 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.
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.
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.)
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.
