I mean, sure, if we're pretending you can't abandon accounts at will and make new ones elsewhere in the lemmy...verse.

The whole idea of "who" is kinda pointless.

Maybe I am the real Vanilla Puddinfudge. Maybe I'm not. What would it mean either way?

Who needs anonymity? I put my real name, address, social security number, and agenda in my profile. Ha ha. you see no agenda because im just a typical earth man with no agenda of course. lol.

Some people actually use the tag feature so that they remember users when they see them again lol

Os it? I don't remeber a single user lol

I call that a feature.

I also like that Lemmy has a displayname field separate from the username and it allows you to make it cooler than just boring plain text. 😏

Certain subreddits used to be like this.

But all my favorites have taken one of two paths:

• Get algorithmically deprioritized (due to a “bug” as an admin told a mod), and hemorrhage users. The collective ‘intelligence’ of the sub in particular drains; interesting intellectual discussions are gone. One such example: /r/localllama

• The sub gets huge. Bots repost memes and bait as attention farms. It doesn’t feel like a small town anymore. Deeper discussions drain away in favor of shallow repetition of the same things over and over again. One example of this for me is /r/thelastairbender.

Jokes on you. Post less, remember less.

I see all of the same names in like every thread here haha. I remember y'all too. I know you are all freaks

I just wish the people in the subs I mod and post in would post some too. I feel like I am just posting for myself in those subs. Hell I am not a mod in c/trailrunning and it has like 170 members and no one post. I was the last person that posted. I know people are looking because someone is upvoting the things I post but no replies, no conversation. I don't know what to do to drive engagement.

Also because it allows anyone to easily stalk all your comments for some reason. Creepy.

Witness me!!!

I love being able to have the small-forum feeling of my home instance but also feeling connected to communities elsewhere.

Oh, you sfoogly cucklebog

That’s why I keep making new accounts every time the last one hits around 1,000 comments. I already recognize quite a few users here who’ve only written around 3,000 comments total - so by that metric, if I’d just kept using my first account, I’d probably be instantly recognizable to a ton of people by now.

I don't know a lot of people in my small town and I don't know you!

From my experience there is only one poster. They are very angry.

Can I be the guy that's known around town for pointing out that in the given context, it's actually "fewer users"

And yeah yeah, I know about evolution of language and common usage, and all that crap. But it really does just boil down to the fact that fewer sounds more elegant when the object is plural. ie: "There are usually fewer unexpected costs associated with new home ownership", vs "There is usually less unexpected cost associated with new home ownership" (Both are correct in their given context)

It's about how language rolls off the tongue. If we lose that we might as well grunt at each other draw pictographs with our own feces.

/end of rant.

Ita kinda neat imo. It's like being in a small town and seeing a celebrity whenever satansmaggotycumfart joins the conversation.

I don't know anybody here. What you talkin about Wilus?

Who are you and how did you get in my sandbox?

I want to be remembered as the succulent meal that sometimes makes good points and funny jokes 🍗🍚