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.
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.
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!
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.
Boost has a tag function. Main reason I’m using it, though I mostly just use it to tag tankies.
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.
Relevant username(?)
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.
Ooh, I wonder what power-up you’re holding?
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.
testing … asvinchtresezwat?
Am I supposed to know what that means?
It’s from this. I was gonna tell you if I got you to say it again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--BslU44vWU
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?
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.
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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https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
48k monthly active users. Votes count as activity, so commenters number is definitely lower
Votes count as activity
Hooray! I’m doing my part as someone who is mainly just a lurker.
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.
Jeffw ain’t a bot?
Too many news bots here IMHO
Jeffw keeps the Philly sports communities going, they’re a real person.
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.
I recognize mine. Pops up kind of often.
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.
Wait, I thought the Margot Robbie account admitted to not being the real person? Lol.
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.
Yeah, but it’s funny to keep up the bit
I just play her on TV.
That’s exactly what the real Margot Robbie would want you to think!
No shit it’s not the real person.
Isn’t she? That’s it, I’m out of Lemmy /s
Probably just her lawyers telling her to tone it down a bit.
Perhaps they (her lawyers) got worried about all her completely justified complaints about being snubbed for awards 🤷
don’t forget Satansmagottycumfart
Yep I did lol, thanks for the addition
Whoa you found all my alts
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(?)
Kolanki, that dude is everywhere!
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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
I honestly can’t figure out if Vegan is trolling or a true believer
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.
Pugjesus is single handedly keeping alive some of the small communities I really like.
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.
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.
SatansMCF is all over the place, they have some good takes, and some awful ones
Like the Santa maggot guy
I kinda like the idea of it being Santa instead of Satan 😁
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
I think most of Lemmy knows me by now, and FlyingSquid.
Never heard of you. What did you do?
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
And Stamets. Though, thinking about it I’ve not seen them about much recently.
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.
He’s Riker now.
He really didn’t like the end to Discovery.
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.
3.6 of? 5? 10? 69?
3.6 roentgen, not great, not terrible.
Stamets had a hater, he probably just made a new profile lol
Yeah that dude who said he has narcissism so it’s ableism to ban him or something?
I do appreciate the poetry posting
I’m so glad! I’m always surprised who reads it.
Yeah I see this person everywhere
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
Omigod I forgot Gallowboob.
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
Yea I’ve been meaning to add that to Thunder.
Username jumpscare
Only the one with the emojis in the name (something with a “K”)
KOLONOSKOPY
Kalm down, doc.
ISVENITYE. NO KOLONOSKOPY TODAY. CARRY ON
Yes. Aside from the friends I’ve made on here, which I rather not disclose, I regularly notice the following usernames:
👋 samesies!