Ask Lemmy

Why would you add one? Who even sees it? This reddit/lemmy style of posting and commenting has always worked with just a username and a comment and I like it that way. If my app started showing them I'd either turn them off or find a new app.

They are just so small idrc about others so I dont bother to put one

Gonna chime in here and agree that its because its because I never see anyone else's or mine, even on the website

I set my avatar, but I use old.lemmy.world and can't see it anyway.

I have a username. That's all the identifying I need. Why do you feel the need to twitterfy lemmy?

Oh hey Bill, I didn’t know my fbi agent had a Lemmy account

I haven't cared about stuff like that since I was 15

When I first set up my account I could not find where to add an avatar (I didn't really look that hard) I figured I would get back to it later and only remembered about it from this post.

why would I set a custom avatar?

Didn’t know they were a thing and Voyager doesn’t support them.

As a software developer I’ve come to realise that most of the stuff I put extra attention to, actual users don’t care and now in just do what people ask for and nothing more.

There, I added an avatar.

That's me under my Performance Designs Spectre 150, circa 1997 or 98... Can't remember as I've slept since then.

I'm ugly and I don't like cartoon pfp

Can't see them on Lemmy Connect either. I like having this platform be as distanced from social media attributes as possible. Like other users have said, every extra bit of anonymity is a boon.

I can't see anyone's avatars and did not know I could set one, but I also wouldn't if I could as I think they're always a bit cringe. I prefer the sea of anonymity.

I can't remember if I even bothered setting one. My app doesn't use them. I don't find them particularly useful on forums anyways. I only like them on real time chat apps where I know I'll be interacting with the same folks over and over again.

Edit: I did set one up!

Anyone know if there's a way to see avatar's through Voyager?

I tried, there was an issue uploading the picture and I just couldn't be bothered to look deeper into it.

If I wanted someone’s opinion to matter more based on who they are, I’d use Mastodon.

Boost only shows them on individual user profile pages, not in threads, so I don't even know who has one to go look at it.

I don't know why others don't but I'll say why I do, which is that I noticed people were remembering my username whether I had an image or not, so why not have an image? And it was early days, still is, so I figured... may as well be the first static.

i havent set it to discord either, or anywhere else either for that matter. Only for steam, but that is because i set it when i was child and i havent wanted to get rid of it for nostalagia's sake and because i cant think of anything better.

it just feels unnecessary

Avatars are a psychological trick useful for building up sunk cost fallacy and making a user more likely to personally identify with a product. I don't have social media avatars for the same reason I don't have "nabisco" tattooed on my asscheek.