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.
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.
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Why the fuck would I ever want to do that? I don’t even want people I know knowing who I am.
Keep my name out ya goddamn mouth — Will Smith probably
I don’t care about mine or anybody elses avatar, also profiles with avatar usually are: selling something (OF) or company profiles or bot accounts, so any account with an avatar is kinda sus to me.
brb gonna post space pics to onlyfans now
So I should start an OnlyFans? You could watch me garden, read, and yell at the TV during hockey games. And occasionally fix stuff.
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.
why would I set a custom avatar?
If I wanted someone’s opinion to matter more based on who they are, I’d use Mastodon.
I can’t see anyone’s avatars and did not know I could set one, but I also wouldn’t if I could as I think they’re always a bit cringe. I prefer the sea of anonymity.
In voyager your can’t see avatars. A lot of people use voyager.
Why? Do you wanna date my avatar? She’s a Star!
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.
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.
I would first need a personality to express.
Accounts come and go, but shitposting is forever.
I don’t see them on the third party app i use
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.
