I forgot.
this post was submitted on 29 May 2025
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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 find both avatars and display names annoying and distracting. If they're enabled by default, I turn them off.
why would I set a custom avatar?
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.
Accounts come and go, but shitposting is forever.
I don't see the point. Even on my monster screen they're only 6mm² so if it's anything other than simple line art it's just a small meaningless square of digital noise.
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.
It is irrelevant.
I gots one, they're just fun
(Clicks on your avatar)
Not sure what I'm looking at, but can confirm it's fun!
Because having a pfp is gay
Guys, I feel like this is a joke rather than an insult. This person has a profile picture.
procrastination of drawing one
I don't even see it on voyager. I don't know why I would want an avatar anyway.
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.
Idk how to use anything here
Mine's tied to my gravatar from 15 years ago otherwise I wouldn't have one. I'm not here to have a profile picture lol
Dang I thought I had. Thanks for the reminder - fixed!
Nicely done!
I haven't cared about stuff like that since I was 15
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.
Same. No avatars shown in voyager.
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.
On my app I can't see it. It maybe you made someone else's day.
I am not sure, but I think these changes take like 24 hours to federate.
Edit: https://lemmy.ml/comment/9231658
"At most every 24 hours"
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.
I hid them to keep the comment section clean looking
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