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 forgot.
My what?
My literal first reaction was “we have avatars?”
The fuc is op about lmao
We’ve got Avatar’s now?
Avatars aren’t info. They just clutter the screen. They very, very rarely are interesting. At worst, they show something inappropriate. They require moderation. They don’t match any aesthetic of the site.
I literally didn’t know they were supported and never see them anyway.
Lemmy has avatars?
Legit my reaction just now.
My reader doesn’t even show avatars
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.
I don’t care enough
Almost every app for Lemmy I have tried does not even have them visible by default and require you to manually turn them on. If their only experience is using an app, they might not even know you can have an avatar.
What? I use voyager, and had no idea. Not that I want to turn it on, I’m just surprised it’s an option (haven’t checked though).
It does explain why nobody has called out my avatar being AI generated when I talk shit about how shitty AI is (I generated it back when this shit was new and didn’t know how crap it actually was yet).
I will now judge you harshly for your transgression. Simply unforgivable. Smh
Wait, your profile says you’ve only been around for 8 months. I swear I’ve been seeing you around for at least a couple years now…
I was originally on an instance that has since shut down so I had to move to another one.
My avatar is also partially AI generated. I GIMPed the Zizek face from one of his movie posters though.
I’m used to people calling me out for the Zizek part and that hasn’t happened on Lemmy ever lol.
I don’t remember what I used for mine, but I remember the prompt was just “a husky dog anthro but the fur that is normally black is green” it gave me 50 different things and this one was the only decent looking image in the whole batch.
Your avatar doesn’t look ai generated actually.
KOLANAKI
It is irrelevant.
Most clients dont show them
Maybe it’s time for a new app 👀
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 don’t even see or care to see avatars. Its just clutter imo.
Yeah same. Does Connect even have a setting for that? I mean I won’t use it; I guess I never bothered to look is all.
There is a setting. The profile pictures are so small in list view, you can’t really tell what it is.
Accounts come and go, but shitposting is forever.
I don’t even see it on voyager. I don’t know why I would want an avatar anyway.
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.
