Although Lemmy’s userbase is quite large,it still is small enough that I do often see the same people in comment sections. It feels though, that I should recognise more names, because I can only remember around 5 individual ones.
Commenting usernames which I know and Someone else have didn’t commented yet.
@Blaze@reddthat.com
@crul@lemm.ee He is now inactive on Lemmy Sadly
Just a few, mostly prominent people from the OpenStreetMap community that I recognize by their username/profile picture.
Sometimes I also tend to see my instance admin sometimes, but it’s more rare.
There’s a guy that bans you for even mildly criticizing his star trek memes.
There’s also the guy that puts a disclaimer under every post forbidding a LLM to use them.
Those are the two I remember. It’s just so hilariously pathetic I chuckle everytime I come across them.
The Picard Maneuver, flying squid, Riker…
Basically anyone who posts to Chevron7 or Ten Forward who has a profile picture… I recognize the pictures more than the names for most.
Personally, I don’t want people to remember me, I just want someone to go “hey, I know what your profile is in reference to! Nerd-five!” and be on about our business.
Is 3 O’Brien’s room? I swear that dude was just trolling people with the transporter buffers.
He was usually in 3, and in DS9 when Picard catches him before he disembarks the Enterprise, he leaves from 3 and Picard mentions it’s O’brien’s favorite transporter room.
There may or may not be a few patterns in storage…
Usually only the conservative Democrats on the politics pages. I just block then after a while.
Most people seem to be looking for positive vibes for the community in here
A few mods, a few hard online posters, and I think like 2 or 3 devs of various projects including lemmy lol.
FlyingSquid, BonesoftheMoon, jeffw, and thePicardManeuver are the ones I recognize because I see them so often.
I don’t but I will add you to my watching list.
“Don’t tell him, Pike!”
I’ll try to do the same haha
Username checks out.
no, but i recognise one profile pic.
also, my block list is gigantic.
my block list is gigantic.
That’s what she said
Why don’t people normally have profile pictures here? This is so much easier to recognize in comparison to text names.
I didn’t think to add one. BRB.
Edit: And done!
Former lurker and exclusive mobile user, I’m mildly surprised you guys have profile pictures; but I suppose my investment is low.
Do I have a profile picture? I see no pictures on the app I’m using inside the threads themselves. I think I have one. A lot of people don’t customize things at all.
Yes you do :)
I think this is a big part of it. I don’t think any of the apps I use have pfp visible by default (tho the community icon shows) and I don’t really care enough to see if I can turn it on. I know I have one, because I used stable diffusion to make it, but I don’t recall what it looks like because it doesn’t show up on my profile page, and my profile information is intentionally suppressed in the main interface (it would show there if I wanted). I never click into other profiles (other than by accident), so I don’t see them there either.
I legit hardly ever recognize anyone because I don’t pay much attention to names unless it’s something weird I want more context for, or a back and forth conversation. I think Reddit trained me to gloss over that.
I mean, I love that this style of forum is anonymous. I like judging what people say as the first thing.
I’m with Rebekah on this one. Never even thought about a profile pic bc the app I use doesn’t show them.
Am I on the list yet
Jokes aside, do you not feel like the fediverse is more “dead” when you block people? I remember back when Ruqqus was a thing, everyone blocked eachother and then quit because eventually you end up blocking the people who post OCs/memes due to irrelevant comments
I blocked a couple of the prolific meme reposters and my Lemmy experience got a lot better. I don’t need to relive Reddit’s Greatest Hits.
Lemmy’s still small enough that if you’re even remotely active, you start to recognize just about everybody. I like that, and I kinda miss that about the smaller communities/forums of the old internet.
Ooh, I wonder what power-up you’re holding?
jots down your username
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
Definately gonna follow this guy around Lemmy and make completely innocent remarks, that are in no way insulting or aggressive.
But with Lemmy being so small, and me having said that, he’s now going to wonder if I actually AM following him around Lemmy. Or is it really the coincidence of Lemmy being so small.
However I post so often everywhere that it’s bound to happen. And he’s going to be like “OH MY GOD DUDE!!! IT’S BEEN THREE MONTHS!!! STOOOOOP!!!”
And 5 minutes after posting this I will immediately forget he exists. Thus making him look like a crazy person from my perspective.
See? This is how you troll yourself. Start by having insane thoughts, follow up by acting on them, then forget the whole thing, and be confused by the consequences of your own actions!
And thus, I learn absplutely nothing!
Relevant username(?)
Start by having insane thoughts, follow up by acting on them, then forget the whole thing, and be confused by the consequences of your own actions!
That is a really spot on description on how I live my life.
I used to use the personal tag/comment in RES to keep track of peoples real names when they let slip in a post.
It was always fun to run across them in another sub months later and use their name as if I knew them.
I’ve ran into my sister a few times. Hilariously one time she didn’t notice my username and actually quoted my own comment back to me IRL because she thought it was funny.
Quitting Reddit and joining Lemmy certainly feels like moving from a metropolis to a village.
Oh yes, I see the same people! It’s like a friendly community!
Always nice to see you on !casualconversation@lemm.ee
Plenty. In fact it’s something I enjoy from here, reminds me of the old internet. It also feels less full of randos than Reddit, although in smaller communities that wasn’t a problem.
Honestly the profile pic helps a lot.
I can’t see profile pic because voyager doesn’t display it.
I was starting to think I was crazy bc I don’t see profile pics anywhere! But I guess it’s a Voyager thing
Yes. Mostly people who I interacted with outside of Lemmy.
I read somewhere those are what some refer to as “friends.” Whatever that word means. ;)
A friend is like two friend requests back to back. I think it’s some kind of geometry thing.
I specifically refer to a matrix channel used by an instance I’m part of. I wouldn’t classify that as friends.
Why did I read this in Data’s voice?
flying squid, return2ozma, jeffw, and that raging moron Stern is about it for me.
Yeah I think there’re a few names I’ve started to recognise as regulars.
Not sure if they’re literally in every thread or if I just have a load of interests cross over with them
