Ask Lemmy

You are probably a dude who spends money on skins and battlepasses.

Most clients dont show them

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

My reader doesn't even show avatars

Tbh I keep meaning to add one but I'm also a wicked procrastinator

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.

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 ugly and I don't like cartoon pfp

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

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.

Lemmy has avatars?

Neither the apps I've used or the web-end I use on my PC seems to make use of avatars at all.

I'd set one if there was a point, but there isn't.

I do not see the importance of an avatar.

If I care enough about another user to note them across time and communities, I give them a tag.

In the other direction, I don't expect anyone to recall my username from one thread to another, to build any sense of my broader personhood greater than one interaction provides.

An avatar just seems unnecessary. I'm also on an app that only displays them if I go out of my way to see them.

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.

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!

I mostly browse while at work to kill time... I don't have access to the avatar I would use at work. Also I don't think I see people's avatars with the front end I use?

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

I don't see them on the third party app i use

Can't be arsed.

I'm not sure how to, and it's not something I care about enough to figure out how. I generally think of posting here as more shouting into the void, so I don't care very much to personalize my account.

I use Sync. I may be missing out on the perfectly simple UI that was developed to do this.

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 would first need a personality to express.

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

Why? Do you want to date my avatar? She’s a Star!

I'm too lazy to search for the image I usually use.

In voyager your can’t see avatars. A lot of people use voyager.