In comment sections or in community pages, it’s mostly an ocean of default avatars.
As a UI developer, that’s always been a gripe because I put a lot of effort into making them look good and scale properly, etc. When I see 60-70% or more accounts sporting the default avatar, it makes me wonder why I even bother.
So, since this bugs me so much, figured I’d just ask.
Lemm.ee users I can understand because of the waiting period for uploads, but AFAIK, most instances don’t have that restriction. Even then, there are plenty of .ee accounts that never bother to go back and set one.
I don’t care enough
My app either doesn’t show them or it’s off by default. I didn’t know there were avatars but I’m not interested in them either since I’m reading on my phone and prefer a minimalist view.
I have avatars disabled
Because a lot of people don’t see a benefit in being recognized when pseudonymously interacting with strangers. And in some apps they aren’t displayed at all.
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.
Heck, I was salty when the old site added avatars. I already ignored names and was weirded out by “popular redditors” culture before avatars, and it was annoying to see a logo next to a name coloring my perception of the comment. I’m here to read comments, not to look at avatars
I had no idea Lemmy even had avatars until I read this post. So I went into my profile out of curiosity - even though I already had “Show Avatars” checked, I’ve never seen a user’s avatar on here before. I did upload one for my own profile though for the hell of it.
My reader doesn’t even show avatars
I hid them to keep the comment section clean looking
Most clients dont show them
Lemmy has avatars?
Legit my reaction just now.
Because I don’t care about it and it makes no difference. They only show in your profile and I don’t look at my profile. The only people that do look at your profile are the people going there to try and find something to use against you.
I’m a creep I click profiles of cute people to see if they have more cute pics
Tbh I keep meaning to add one but I’m also a wicked procrastinator
Relatable.
Comedy gold right there.
I disable avatar display on all my clients. Reddit and it’s siblings like Lemmy have historically been less person-focused than other websites, and many of us like to keep it that way. While it can be neat to recognise people, I only need their user handle to do so and I only check if necessary. It’s nice to take a comment at it’s value without regard for who said it. Reddit’s push towards personifying their users is part of why I left.
You see my user name - that’s all you need. You want more info? I’ve got a comment history you can see too. Why do I need some visual component that I can change when I’ve got an unchanging name until I decide to abandon this account and get a new one.
