For real. I can never understand why some of ye don’t have a cool pfp. You could even get some cool background art on your profile as well. Really jazz it up, ya know. But I swear 90% instead opt for the default lemmy logo. How uncreative and boring. I can’t even tell most of you people apart.

  • harmonea@kbin.social
    191·
    1 year ago

    I can’t even tell most of you people apart.

    Have you ever considered maybe that’s the point? Maybe people want to be judged for what they say instead of what image they had on hand when they signed up?

    I uploaded a pic while playing with all the shiny features over here, but I was faceless on reddit for years after their introduction of profile pics, because I was there to have discussions, not build a profile. And the one I picked here? It tells you almost nothing about me unless you already know the character in the image, which only people who have a similar niche interest might.

    This is like whining about women who don’t wear makeup, because “If you have the option why not just snazzy it up with a couple of images tiny bit of eyeshadow. I think it’s shows a bit of personality.” Sometimes the active decision not to bother with cosmetic features IS the personality you’re looking for.

  • zeet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    It was at that point Striker realised anyone on a phone would not be using a mouse.

  • Neato@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    I honestly can’t tell if most people (in this thread even) don’t have profile pics or if I can’t see them because kbin.social has some weird federation issues (like with votes).

    But I also learned recently you can use a gif as a profile pic. I like my animated pic and it brings a little nostalgia bomb every time I see it.

  • Hank@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    I don’t like seeing profile pics. It takes away some of the anomity and makes me judge a comment before I read it.

  • insomniac_lemon@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    I think it should be at least somewhat personal, so a bit more difficult to have something interesting I suppose. Especially with restrictions, at least on Kbin I think with the avatar it’s 500x500 (but usually downscaled to 100x100) and for profile background it’s 1500x500 (and then that gets zoomed in a tiny bit for whatever reason).

    Also relevant to the linked SVG, I’d be more inclined to create something better if live-rendered SVGs were possible here (but you can’t upload them and even the linked one doesn’t get a thumbnail). For instance my avatar was made in inkscape (though I’m not good at using it and I’d prefer a polygon workflow, like this animated eye that I made using Godot).

  • atocci@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    Lots of gray box profiles on comments in this thread. Guess this really was a hot take.

    • Tuss@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I use connect for Lemmy so I don’t see profile pictures. I didn’t even know it was a thing.

      On reddit I used RIF and old.reddit and I had all subreddit personalisation turned off. So no personal snoo or profile page there either or whatever people did.