Spyke

Do you recognise any usernames on Lemmy?

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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fedia.io

Lemmy's still small enough that if you're even remotely active, you start to recognize just about everybody. I like that, and I kinda miss that about the smaller communities/forums of the old internet.

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lemmy.world

jots down your username

Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

Definately gonna follow this guy around Lemmy and make completely innocent remarks, that are in no way insulting or aggressive.

But with Lemmy being so small, and me having said that, he's now going to wonder if I actually AM following him around Lemmy. Or is it really the coincidence of Lemmy being so small.

However I post so often everywhere that it's bound to happen. And he's going to be like "OH MY GOD DUDE!!! IT'S BEEN THREE MONTHS!!! STOOOOOP!!!!"

And 5 minutes after posting this I will immediately forget he exists. Thus making him look like a crazy person from my perspective.

See? This is how you troll yourself. Start by having insane thoughts, follow up by acting on them, then forget the whole thing, and be confused by the consequences of your own actions!

And thus, I learn absplutely nothing!

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lemmy.world

I used to use the personal tag/comment in RES to keep track of peoples real names when they let slip in a post.

It was always fun to run across them in another sub months later and use their name as if I knew them.

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Boost has a tag function. Main reason I'm using it, though I mostly just use it to tag tankies.

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Start by having insane thoughts, follow up by acting on them, then forget the whole thing, and be confused by the consequences of your own actions!

That is a really spot on description on how I live my life.

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I've ran into my sister a few times. Hilariously one time she didn't notice my username and actually quoted my own comment back to me IRL because she thought it was funny.

Quitting Reddit and joining Lemmy certainly feels like moving from a metropolis to a village.

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lemmy.one

Shocked nobody seems to have brought up ThePicardManuever yet

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lemmy.world

Haha I'd missed that.

On a side note I thought it ended ok. Not great not terrible I'd probably give it 3.6.

The calypso ending was massively tacked on. Instead of putting the tech in the black hole they should have had to have Discovery itself have to hide with it. Then emotional goodbyes under pressure rather than dragged out.

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JameGumb and Pug Jesus too.

I think the fediverse is the future and I want it to do well and be robust, and also I like to talk a lot so that translates to posting here.

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you and @FlyingSquid yeah. I did calculate one day how much flying squod posts and comments and damn he's active

edit: I guess you can link people like that. TIL

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HEXN3Treply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

One of you, or the furry that I can't remember the name of (so sorry), has to compete to become the new GallowBoob.

Or me. I exist.

EDIT: Kolanki

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flying squid, return2ozma, jeffw, and that raging moron Stern is about it for me.

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I think Kolanaki, Zacharia, Margot Robbie (since she's famous already), are the ones I can remember. Maybe making a journal page for keeping track would help.

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That's exactly what the real Margot Robbie would want you to think!

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I briefly created a POTUS account on kbin and posted what I thought were obvious jokes. It got so overwhelmed with people assuming it was real that I got creeped out and immediately abandoned it. I was kinda shocked. People really just kinda...believe whatever the screen says, I guess.

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Klearreply
lemmy.world

Probably just her lawyers telling her to tone it down a bit.

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Perhaps they (her lawyers) got worried about all her completely justified complaints about being snubbed for awards 🤷

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FlyingSquid is the only one I recognize and I feel like he's lemmys GallowBoob from reddit.

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It has invaded my head, too. I want a chance to use it in real life, but when!? Where!? Trivia night?

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Yes.

I see and reply to u/FlyingSquid a lot.

I also see u/The_Picard_Manoeuvre or some variation. I only remember those two as I saw them a lot when I came here and still do.

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lemmy.world

I know it's bad to put your own picture in your profile, but I had to show you all how majestically I soar.

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I would think that O'Hare and Indianapolis International would have issues with you violating their airspace.

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nikaaareply
lemmy.world

I have always wondered how do you do it: How do you fly?

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nikaaareply
lemmy.world

From the link:

A species of oceanic squid can fly more than 30 metres (100 feet) through the air at speeds faster than Usain Bolt if it wants to escape predators, Japanese researchers said Friday.

So, what's chasing you?

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nikaaareply
lemmy.world

From the link:

It’s a squid-eat-squid world down there.

Sounds pretty capitalistic to me.

Do you have a minute to talk about socialism?

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Look, I'm all for the squid to control the means of propulsion, but it's hard convincing others...

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Also I suspect I know @[email protected] IRL, but I’m not certain.

I guess that's a consequence of telling the same anecdotes on lemmy and to everyone I see.

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lemmy.world

Flying squid spends their entire life here as far as I can tell. And just about every major news sub is owned by Jeffw. This place has like 400 active users tops.

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Votes count as activity

Hooray! I'm doing my part as someone who is mainly just a lurker.

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I may be off for sure. But it's pretty easy to size up the daily users and subs they run. It really depends on the metric you want to look at. The details are everything.

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sunzureply
kbin.run

Jeffw ain't a bot?

Too many news bots here IMHO

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Jeffw keeps the Philly sports communities going, they’re a real person.

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It may be both? I'm not sure how the API works but I've thought I've seen him comment a few times in between the rage bait lol.

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Plenty. In fact it's something I enjoy from here, reminds me of the old internet. It also feels less full of randos than Reddit, although in smaller communities that wasn't a problem.

Honestly the profile pic helps a lot.

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lemmy.ca

I can't see profile pic because voyager doesn't display it.

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I was starting to think I was crazy bc I don’t see profile pics anywhere! But I guess it’s a Voyager thing

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The Picard Maneuver, flying squid, Riker...

Basically anyone who posts to Chevron7 or Ten Forward who has a profile picture... I recognize the pictures more than the names for most.

Personally, I don't want people to remember me, I just want someone to go "hey, I know what your profile is in reference to! Nerd-five!" and be on about our business.

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lemmy.world

Is 3 O'Brien's room? I swear that dude was just trolling people with the transporter buffers.

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He was usually in 3, and in DS9 when Picard catches him before he disembarks the Enterprise, he leaves from 3 and Picard mentions it's O'brien's favorite transporter room.

There may or may not be a few patterns in storage...

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lemmy.ml

Am I on the list yet

Jokes aside, do you not feel like the fediverse is more "dead" when you block people? I remember back when Ruqqus was a thing, everyone blocked eachother and then quit because eventually you end up blocking the people who post OCs/memes due to irrelevant comments

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I blocked a couple of the prolific meme reposters and my Lemmy experience got a lot better. I don't need to relive Reddit's Greatest Hits.

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Jeenareply
piefed.jeena.net

Why don't people normally have profile pictures here? This is so much easier to recognize in comparison to text names.

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RebekahWSDreply
lemmy.world

Do I have a profile picture? I see no pictures on the app I'm using inside the threads themselves. I think I have one. A lot of people don't customize things at all.

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I think this is a big part of it. I don’t think any of the apps I use have pfp visible by default (tho the community icon shows) and I don’t really care enough to see if I can turn it on. I know I have one, because I used stable diffusion to make it, but I don’t recall what it looks like because it doesn’t show up on my profile page, and my profile information is intentionally suppressed in the main interface (it would show there if I wanted). I never click into other profiles (other than by accident), so I don’t see them there either.

I legit hardly ever recognize anyone because I don’t pay much attention to names unless it’s something weird I want more context for, or a back and forth conversation. I think Reddit trained me to gloss over that.

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I’m with Rebekah on this one. Never even thought about a profile pic bc the app I use doesn’t show them.

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Former lurker and exclusive mobile user, I'm mildly surprised you guys have profile pictures; but I suppose my investment is low.

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I mean, I love that this style of forum is anonymous. I like judging what people say as the first thing.

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Definitely. There is about a handful of terminally online users who are posting here way too much for way too long, they should probably take a step back and touch some grass, which i mean in the most respectful and understanding way imaginable.

On the other hand, those people are main content providers and their unhealthy behavior is our gain.

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lemmy.world

Seeing names pop up here that I know are just trolls. It's actually kinda a bummer. Like the Santa maggot guy. Quite certain they are not here to be helpful, so why glorify them? That said, we know Picard is legit so three cheers to them.

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Like the Santa maggot guy

I kinda like the idea of it being Santa instead of Satan 😁

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i don't think they are a troll, yeah they said nome shit i disagree, but most of time they are fine comments or i agree with them

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After being outted on Reddit years ago, I made a rule to myself. If I ever become known on a platform (or on Reddit, reach 100000 upvotes), I'd delete my account and start over.

Frankly, some of the shit I've said could get me in trouble at work or my real life. So the anonymity is a boon.

If I was counting reddit, this would be my 13th account.

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There's a handful, yeah. Some folks are prolific posters. Others just have altered text I'm their name, which makes it stand out enough to recall easily.

But generally, it takes extended interactions to remember a user name for long.

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anomolyreply
lemmy.world

^^^ This is the one I recognize. There's just so many times that I see a kind, well thought out, informative comment and it's got southsamurai's name above it

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sh.itjust.works

No kidding? That's kinda cool since I recognize your name too. Had a great conversation.

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Off the top of my head, a lot. @FlyingSquid, @The_Picard_Maneuver, @AngryCommieKender, @captainlezbian, @DragonTypeWyvern, @Cryophilia, @masquenox, @jimmydoreisalefty, @SatansMaggotyCumFart, @BonesOfTheMoon, @1984, @Cryophilia, @Nurse_Robot. Some of them just have very memorable or kick-ass names (Nurse Robot? Why didn't I think of that???), and some of them are unavoidable on the site.

I also usually remember the active conservative and "centrist" specimens on this site, like intensely_human, IsThisAnAI, TubularTittyFrog, SpaceCowboy, Melvin_Ferd. I tend to strongly disagree with them a lot.

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lemm.ee

Thepickardmaneuver or whatever and Luxefre or something are the only two I can think of. Another one posts a lot and the other made a good argument at some point.

There's a ton more that I recognize when I see their name but can't think of of the top of my head.

There are also few I've blocked that I don't give the pleasure of mentioning their names.

Edit: oh and kolanki(?)

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oldfartreply
lemm.ee

Kolanki, that dude is everywhere!

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FlyingSquid, The Picard Maneuver, Ummthatguy, SatansMaggotyCumFart, SPECULATOR, KonalaKoala, SHEEPLE, ParabolicMotion (infamous), El_Burrito, FartsWithAnAccent...

There's more that I recognize but mostly by their avatars and not their names.

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You're one of several people I see frequently in various threads. I do hope Stamets is still around, haven't seen them much lately.

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kylereply

Agreed, surprised they haven't shown up in this thread yet lol.

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I see a few of the same people in many threads. There are definitely some “power users” here.

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lemmy.world

I'm always seeing posts and comments from that one guy everybody secretly doesn't like. Man, I hate that guy.

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lemmy.world

Damn we’re already at the people have transitioned because of this social media site stage?

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Elsiereply
lemmy.ml

I also pick this man's wife -_-

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lemmy.world

Again not a scam but in order for this to become official, I must get to know you. What is the make and model of your first car? Also what’s your favorite food? And what’s the name of your first pet? Again not a scam, I just want to get to know you better.

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lemmy.nowsci.com

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.

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glimsereply
lemmy.world

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

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Not really, because I normally don't even look at or register usernames unless I emphatically agree or disagree with a post. I've been doing this for years, first on forums, then on reddit and now here. I don't want to be biased against the content of the message just because I like or dislike a particular poster, so I mostly ignore usernames altogether.

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FlyingSquid mostly, and a few others. Not sure if I'd be able to spell all the others properly though, lol

I had to block a few who were spamming too much, but I've since forgotten their usernames.

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feddit.nl

Connect lets you tag people, witch helps with recognition. Both in positive and negative sense. I usually tag people before adding them to my ban list, to see if their behaviour is coherent or a fluke.

Aside from that there's a couple of names that I recall through their frequency of posting or a very specific name, such as Mr cumfart, flying squid, pugjesus and Picard. Otherwise I sometimes recognize names, but not in a way I would recall them.

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I always check people's comment history before I block, to see if they are always a jerk or if they're just having a bad day.

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Is Connect ad supported? I might switch if so. It would suck to have to rebuild my tagged users though, I do the same thing.

Edit: no ads. Thank you!

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lemmy.ml

Pretty often. People are still able to get fun usernames right now so they're more memorable

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kbin.earth

Craftyindividual, pugjesus, adjjj, nanoUFO, all the frequent content posters in the magazines I am interested in. Sometimes I recognize people by name who post less frequently or just by avatar in the sidebar when logging in.

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Pugjesus is single handedly keeping alive some of the small communities I really like.

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lemmy.world

I only know 4 or so offhand though there's probably more that I'm interacting with on a regular basis that I should commit to memory.

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lemmy.world

Thanks, I'll have you know that my chihuahua (mutt) is indeed a force to be reckoned with with his 1 eye and 6 teeth.

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Sounds fierce! My beagle chihuahua mix will just make very loud high pitched and squawky noises, so as long as your chihuahua still has hearing mine has a chance in a battle

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lemmy.world

I’ve already blocked military veganism (not the actual name but I don’t want them to accidentally show up) And I’ve noticed satansmaggotycumfart (or something similar to that) a few times

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jet
hackertalks.com

Oh yes, I see the same people! It's like a friendly community!

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Yeah, lots of them, but keep forgetting them from time to time... The dude with the huge ass font is the most remarkable to me.

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There's mostly the same handful of people that ever report posts/comments so you quickly start recognising them. There are probably about ~20-30 people from my own instance that I recognise and a few prolific shitposters in the wider lemmyverse. Disabling profile pictures certainly makes it a lot harder to remember profiles though.

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A small handful. Especially those who post content a lot. But not a lot.

However, when reading comments, I only check usernames when I either strongly agree or disagree. Only outliers are identified; idle chat is visually anonymized by my having a very limited field of view.

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lemmy.world

I read somewhere those are what some refer to as “friends.” Whatever that word means. ;)

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A friend is like two friend requests back to back. I think it’s some kind of geometry thing.

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lemmy.ml

To the surprise of everyone, the Rapture happened yesterday but it didn't quite go as expected.

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Lemmy is pretty tame bunch. As long as you stick away from political.

I find the conservative moderates posing as Democrats to be quite distasteful.

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Yeah I think there're a few names I've started to recognise as regulars.

Not sure if they're literally in every thread or if I just have a load of interests cross over with them

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Unfortunately, yes. The vast majority of them are from shitty people that are on my block list. Only a few are just prolific posters, like Picard Maneuver and Flying Squid.

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Cool say just list a checking your banlist for me, thanks. Was confused. Vacuum there and it not a what cause I'm asking you, curiously: asvinchtresezwat?

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Yesss.

flying squid

the cooler mia

max

gandalf der 12

ygthur (or sth)

and a lot of german home instance ones (ranslite, nudel, kühe, ...)

and probably a few i forgot rn

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No, but I miss the days of smaller forums with user recognition. The last time I really recognized a user that wasn't a mass repost bot was a user on the r/stalker (game) sub-reddit by the name of CeliceTheGreat. Every interaction and opinion we ever had were seemingly in solidarity with one another, and it was always a pleasure to encounter him on other subs occasionally. I doubt he was any more Russian than I am (American/Canadian), but I miss you, comrade, and think of you often.

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Yes, a few.

Even if you see many, it doesn't seem odd to only remember 5 though. I was on Reddit for like 9 years and would only have recognized a handful of usernames.

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lemm.ee

@PugJesus wya?

Why did everyone get so political lmao

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lemmy.world

Everyone got political because that guy is pro genocide. Its a pretty gross stance. Hard to overlook.

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PugJesusreply
lemmy.world

I'm not. I'm extremely anti-Israel, but not supporting a Trump presidency makes me pro-genocide in the eyes of accelerationists.

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lemmy.world

Most unfortunately. He's otherwise alright if you avoid the political subs.

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TrickDacyreply
lemmy.world

You say that because you're an accelerationist and pugjesus doesn't want the United States and all its minority groups to burn

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lemmy.world

The dude is really hurting his cause with his conservative takes. He makes supposed moderates look downright radical.

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lemmy.world

Not many people would consider this a "moderate" or "conservative" take:

"let us burn down the system with suffering spread around to many millions of people because democrats aren't good enough"

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lemmy.world

The dude applauds genocide my guy. Its sad that that take is so moderate in the US and indicative of the problem.

I really dont know why youd feel comfortable supporting a poster like that.

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Absolutely wild take, but keep acting like anyone to the left of Bill Krystol is Satan.

I want Trump to lose actually, I just so happen to think that our support of Isreal is hurting those odds.

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I'm not sure asking someone to dive through a power user's comment log is entirely reasonable, but this is also news to me.

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Just came by to this thread right now, seems like the mods removed quite a few comments

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lemmy.world

Nah, he just really wants Gaza to burn and for everyone to let it happen, and thinks anyone not pretending nothing is wrong is a trump supporter

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Nice circle jerk boys, y'all can hit the showers now.

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I recognize maybe 1 or 2. I'm on a lot less than I was when I started so it makes sense.

There was a thread about me (cheese_greater) a long time ago haha. Like they say, if you can't read about yourself...It was pretty...balanced, fr

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Yeah. I see a bunch of the same accounts, but that’s probably because they’re active in the same communities I am. I see a lot more accounts I don’t recognize though.

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Yeah, especially that bird picture person and the big letter person.

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lemmy.today

A few, but I generally don't look at usernames.

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The other day I was able to end a comment with “40 years ago people were literally living in 1984” and like nobody got the dumb joke I was making.

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I think I'm glad to not be noticed. I tend to comment to either make a joke or express exasperation/self loathing. Being recognized for that would probably be pretty embarrassing.

Sorry for making you my therapist Lemmy lol

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I recognise a lot of people on hexbear since most other instances defederate them. doesn't leave a lot of variety so it has that forum feel.

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Definitely. It helps that I tend to stick to the less mainstream lemmy communities (mostly the queer communities on blahaj.zone). It's to a point where it can be rare for me to enter a popular comment section without seeing at least 1 or 2 recognizable usernames.

To be honest, I kind of enjoy the smallness of the platform at times, it reminds me of what the old internet has always been described as to me (but with faster data transfer, and more features)

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If you're a regular on any of the communities I mod, I remember your username. Any new username to me immediately stands out.

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Nope, not quite, or at least I can't remember.

I reckon not everyone carried over their username from the other place; I personally didn't.

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fedia.io

@[email protected] Yes, but I use microblogging site of the Fediverse pretty often, and recognize more names from there

(Software I'm using supports both Lemmy and Mastodon etc so I'm exposed to both)

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No it’s all the same to me and I don’t even care about the usernames

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piefed.jeena.net

No, somehow the usernames are not very prominent and especially the avatars are so small that I practically don't see them.

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lemmy.world

I think you might be great to do a podcast. You could explore the pressing issues society faces. The long lasting issues that society has faced for generations. Healthcare, religion, education, senior care abuse by nursing homes, inappropriate actions of priests with little boys, the shrinking availability for citizens not corporations to buy houses, parenting styles evolving over time. I could go on, but you get the idea.

First you start the show, and discuss the topic in a more rational logic and fact based side, and then rediscuss everything from your more sensitive, vunerable, emotional side.

The whole hook of the show could revolve around the duality of mankind, and how every issue has different ways to look at it. Different sides, ya' know? And even though all of it is your opinion, your different sides may often differ, and clash.

It would need a website though. How about www.Jennas-Side.com

:D

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Jeenareply
piefed.jeena.net

OK, I really didn't get the joke so I had to ask ChatGTP and it explained the joke to me. Not bad, and unexpected.

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Jeenareply
piefed.jeena.net

I already have both, a website and a podcast. In this episode https://jeena.net/pods/18 for example I talk with a ex Jehovas Vittnesses about how religion destroyed her life, very emotional episode.

Or in this one https://jeena.net/pods/21 I went to Palestine to speak to a Palestinian family which house has been bulldozed by the IDF 3 times already.

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lemmy.world

Can't tell if the joke went right by you without notice, or if you're just not a fan of dark wordplay.

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Definatelly the first one. I realized that the comment is somehow very on point with the topics, I even showed it to my spouse and she was also confused. But I didn't realize it was a joke. I guess I need to read it a couple of times.

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Jeenareply
piefed.jeena.net

But thanks to your post I now made the avatars and usernames bigger and thus more prominent, perhaps I'll recognize more people like that!

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I've had some really bad brain fog for most of the year, so while I'm generally not able to recall them on the spot, I certainly do see quite a few that makes me go "Oh hey I remember that one!".

I like that the Threadiverse is still kinda at the size that this still happens quite a bit.

I'd be very surprised if I were recognized since I've been quite bad about contributing to the conversation, but I still enjoy things around here nonetheless!

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Just a few, mostly prominent people from the OpenStreetMap community that I recognize by their username/profile picture.

Sometimes I also tend to see my instance admin sometimes, but it's more rare.

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i haven;t paid attention to someones username unless they brought it up

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Yeah a handful of people, but I’m terminally online when I’m between my terminally offline tasks

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A few mods, a few hard online posters, and I think like 2 or 3 devs of various projects including lemmy lol.

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Oh my, a real who's who, I recognize most of the names mentioned too. But let's be fair, they post stuff while many, myself included, just comment.

Too bad I just use my game name for this, haha

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I never do but one I started noticing is flying squid user but most of the time I don't look at the username unless I want to see their responses.

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Is it good to be engaged enough to be recognised in Lemmy? I don't know if the big players around here are just spending their entire day on Lemmy as many people on Redditors do. There is a small part of me that too wishes to be recognized as an active member in this community but I don't want it at the expense of my real life.

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The profile pictures are super tiny and I only sometimes read the names. So, for the most part I only check the post/comment and decide on a vote or comment action.

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No, but then again, I’m better remembering names when they’re paired with the pictures by their names. I lurk Lemmy with the Voyager app, which doesn’t seem to display pics next to names. So… Yeah

Also, low key happy to see I haven’t been mentioned. Means I’ve really toned it down since my Reddit days and leaving Reddit a year ago. Progress.

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Yes, I see a good amount; I also try to interact with them as well!

I have a few admirers; they make sure to share their opinion on some of my posts; making sure I am not lonely, how thoughtful!

It is always a great time when you recognize some peeps, and then there are some that are just 'Passin' Me By'[1]...

[1] The Pharcyde - Passin' Me By

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lemmy.world

Usually only the conservative Democrats on the politics pages. I just block them after a while.

Edit: what we like conservatives now?

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