Do you recognise any usernames on Lemmy?

Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 254 points –

Although Lemmy's userbase is quite large,it still is small enough that I do often see the same people in comment sections. It feels though, that I should recognise more names, because I can only remember around 5 individual ones.

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Depends on four factors (theory):

  • You have profile pictures on
  • Your App shows the emoji characters in display names (ugh (my reaction has no reflection on the quality of their posts, it just annoys me))
  • You reply to the same person more than a few times
  • You proactively read usernames as you read comments/posts

The last one is key. I think most people skim right over them, which makes the first three important.

Connect lets you disable custom display names otherwise that guy would be on my blocklist. I haven't noticed him once since disabling it but goddamn did I find it annoying before that