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.
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.
My what?
My literal first reaction was “we have avatars?”
The fuc is op about lmao
We’ve got Avatar’s now?
Avatars aren’t info. They just clutter the screen. They very, very rarely are interesting. At worst, they show something inappropriate. They require moderation. They don’t match any aesthetic of the site.
I literally didn’t know they were supported and never see them anyway.
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.
why would I set a custom avatar?
Accounts come and go, but shitposting is forever.
It is irrelevant.
I find both avatars and display names annoying and distracting. If they’re enabled by default, I turn them off.
I don’t even see it on voyager. I don’t know why I would want an avatar anyway.
I don’t even see or care to see avatars. Its just clutter imo.
Yeah same. Does Connect even have a setting for that? I mean I won’t use it; I guess I never bothered to look is all.
There is a setting. The profile pictures are so small in list view, you can’t really tell what it is.
I don’t care enough
I gots one, they’re just fun
(Clicks on your avatar)
Not sure what I’m looking at, but can confirm it’s fun!
I don’t see the point. Even on my monster screen they’re only 6mm² so if it’s anything other than simple line art it’s just a small meaningless square of digital noise.
Heck, I was salty when the old site added avatars. I already ignored names and was weirded out by “popular redditors” culture before avatars, and it was annoying to see a logo next to a name coloring my perception of the comment. I’m here to read comments, not to look at avatars
Because a lot of people don’t see a benefit in being recognized when pseudonymously interacting with strangers. And in some apps they aren’t displayed at all.
