With 21x21 avatars, the question is why even have this functionality in the first place. That size is too small to matter.
this post was submitted on 29 May 2025
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Oh hey Bill, I didn’t know my fbi agent had a Lemmy account
Hadn’t really thought about it until you asked. Don’t see why it’s worth the bother.
There are avatars?
My app do display them, but I hadn't paid attention to it.
I have everyone else's avatars hidden anyway so wouldn't make much sense to set one for myself. I just don't see the appeal.
You guys have avatars?!?
I'm lazy.
You actually have an avatar, lol, so you must not be that lazy haha.
Are you referring to people's profile pictures as avatars? Otherwise I have no idea what you mean.
Yeah, profile pictures. In the API data, they're called avatar so that's the term I tend to use.
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Anyone know if there's a way to see avatar's through Voyager?
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
Because I hadn't even thought of it.
On Reddit, it changed to something semi-unique and, even though I never changed it, I somehow identified with it.
On Reddit, it changed to something semi-unique and, even though I never changed it, I somehow identified with it.
That's what Tesseract does; pseudorandom avatars based on the actor ID if the profile hasn't set one. But those are just local, though.
Lol, here's what it generates for yours:
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Wonder the same thing a lot. I change mine up semi-regularly, same with my profile banner, but that's just me being bored.
The thing that drives me insane is when a community doesn't use the icon. The FUCK ARE YOU DOING.
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I have a username. That's all the identifying I need. Why do you feel the need to twitterfy lemmy?
I have one, but use Voyager so I cannot actually ever see it (nor my changed username)
Not that I care too much, y'all can enjoy how good it looks while you're here but I get to see it everywhere :3
Why would you add one? Who even sees it? This reddit/lemmy style of posting and commenting has always worked with just a username and a comment and I like it that way. If my app started showing them I'd either turn them off or find a new app.
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 set my avatar, but I use old.lemmy.world and can't see it anyway.
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.
Gonna chime in here and agree that its because its because I never see anyone else's or mine, even on the website
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They are just so small idrc about others so I dont bother to put one
I have one because I finally found a fun pic that was mostly round so it with fill up the avatar bubble enough to still be distinguishable what it was. Most are way too small to make out what it is, and not intriguing enough to click to the profile just to see it slightly larger.
If mine didn't serve slightly as a promo for my community, I'd likely still have the default.
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.