In comment sections or in community pages, it’s mostly an ocean of default avatars. Why do you choose to stand out with a custom avatar on this semi-anonymous platform?
I didn’t. So there.
It’s an ornithological avatar. I’m trying to raise mass awareness of a certain avian variety.
We have avatars? 🤨
Yeah. You can get a lil picture next to your name
I don’t think Voyager shows them.
Yeah I don’t use it but other vayagers have said the same
I just think it’s cute lol
I still have yet to see any of these avatars you guys are talking about. 🤷🏻♂️
Do you use Voyager? Or perhaps another client? Nothing about the user profile is surfaced in Voyager. You have to go to the native webview and open a user’s profile to see all that. I set a brief bio there, but until it’s exposed in my primary client I don’t really see any reason to worry about all that.
I do sometimes check on nsfw boards so can flag users as OF creators vs. amateurs because I have more appreciation for folks doing that for fun than as a hustle. Other than that, it’s too much hassle to go checking everyone’s profile when maybe 10% of people set anything at all.
I use Boost, I figure it’s a similar situation.
I wish voyager showed profile pics
Tesseract and other clients kinda do:
It amused me.
There’s no compelling reason not to, but to each their own. I’m not judging either way.
But I’m not reusing the same avatar image on multiple platforms either.
AI garbage drawings were pretty much brand new when I set up my account. So I figured, sure, a lemming astronaut would be fun. And I liked it so I kept it.
As a Reddit refugee (API debacle), I liked not having the same cheesy avatar as everyone else.
Same. There was a thread prompting users to generate AI images of their username, and I liked the result.
I paid for mine on r/hungryartists - I think it’s a cool drawing & I am happy with it.
That was a very, very long time ago of course.
Easier to quickly distinguish between users with different-colored indicators for different users. There isn’t built-in functionality to do that. If there was, I wouldn’t have.
No reason in particular, i like mad Tom O’bedlam and his god of cities from the invisibles comic based on the 17th century poem/song
In comment sections or in community pages, it’s mostly an ocean of default avatars.
When I joined it seemed like most people had an avatar. I have used this one for years, so why not?
I also like recognizing other Lemmings. Username is alright for that, but the image helps even more. It makes it feel like a small community from the internet of old (forums).
So that everyone on the internet can know I am a dog.
Sup dog
I like spaceships…
Because ^
