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.

  • Gustephan@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    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.

  • 0ops@lemm.ee
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    9 days ago

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

  • Wahots@pawb.social
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    9 days ago

    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!

  • BigPotato@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    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.

  • Vanth@reddthat.comEnglish
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    9 days ago

    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.

  • rarbg@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    9 days ago

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

  • Asafum@feddit.nl
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    9 days ago

    Even though I tend to comment somewhat frequently, I prefer to be just “another voice in the crowd” I don’t really want to be more easily recognized lol

  • HyalineCat@lemm.eeEnglish
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    9 days ago

    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.