There’s been a couple of minor dust-ups on mastodon about the conduct of so-called “big accounts” there that I do not care to comment on, but it has got me thinking — do we even have “big accounts” on the threadiverse (Lemmy/piefed/mbin)? I don’t think there’s any handle I’ve seen where I’ve been like “oh yeah, that person.” Am I just bad at remembering usernames, or does the community/thread style of discussion remove all continuity for a single account?

  • Vespair@lemmy.zipEnglish
    52·
    3 days ago

    I think there’s a small handful of powerusers like LadyButterfly, Stamets, The_Picard_Maneuver, formerly FlyingSquid, etc, but they seem to me mostly non-problematic, mostly don’t seem to overreach, and all seem to be actual people who actually interact and engage in discussions as members of their respective communities. I think some of them could post less or be more discerning in what they post, if it was up to me, but I understand that currently all of these type of users are interested in the growth of Lemmy and motivated to do their part to provide content, so I appreciate them vastly more than any critique I have of them. I am wary of the influence and soft power that can be accrued by powerusers, but as of right now I personally don’t think it’s a particular issue the community is currently facing.

    But also I am not the most active or engaged community member, especially in the drama or social politics side of the fediverse, so the likelihood of blindspots in my view is high, I’ll admit.

      • Vespair@lemmy.zipEnglish
        4·
        3 days ago

        Nothing at all. I don’t know any of these users other than through brief interactions in comments.

    • Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      3 days ago

      There’s that guy who makes accounts on seemingly every instance imaginable and seems to be a moderator on dozens of communities as well.

    • paraplu@piefed.socialEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      I do wish we had more granular controls of what to block and when, but maybe that’s on me to make that.

      All of these users have great stuff, but sometimes their posts to certain communities may align less with my interests. I’ve mostly resorted to blocking those entire communities, but if I could block posts to that community only by specific users, that would be better.

  • justdaveisfine@piefed.socialEnglish
    53·
    3 days ago

    There’s a handful of posters here that I definitely recognize. I don’t know if I’d call any of them big accounts, though that may not be a bad thing.

      • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
        17·
        3 days ago

        In my case both. Some people are 90% of the posts in the community but others are really healthy with more posters.

        Reddit was like this once a decace ago. With much worse mod tools amd less transpatency.

  • Lasherz@lemmy.world
    34·
    3 days ago

    The_picard_maneuver I feel was a large reason there was even enough meme content to make it start feeling like a reddit replacement for me. I don’t hate power users here since we need more posts to keep the fediverse content active. Maybe if we had 10k+ upvote posts in a single day it’d get old seeing the same faces, but if the content is good it’s elevated. I’d only want something done about it if there were bots who follow-voted to achieve misleading numbers.

  • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
    20·
    3 days ago

    the Kolanaki guy, that Chinese guy who keeps changing his name but has an ROC flag profile picture, LadyButterfly (she posts a lot in a community I moderate, very pleasant person). I think I’ve had my scrapings with Pugjesus and afraidofzombies, good to have discussion. There’s also someone on here called “Satan’s maggoty cum fart”

    Oh and YappyMonotheist is one of my favourites. He’s a very pleasant gentleman.There was a mormon guy here called Baldprophet, haven’t seen him in ages

  • Asafum@lemmy.world
    27·
    3 days ago

    I think I’m on here too much because I was kind of surprised, my first reaction was “of course! People like stamets, ladybutterfly, silence7, PugJesus, The_Picard_Maneuver, etc…”

    But I shouldn’t really think of this as obvious, but more of a sign that I should be on here less lol

  • Perspectivist@feddit.uk
    12·
    3 days ago

    Plenty of accounts that I see commenting here regularly. Not “big accounts” per se but rather just people I seem to be running into constantly. This is such a small platform that it’s pretty easy to get niche fame. That’s why I’m on my 10th account.

    • CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.worldOP
      41·
      3 days ago

      You’re on your tenth account because you’re worried that people will get a sense of who you are and what you stand for?

      • Perspectivist@feddit.uk
        12·
        3 days ago

        I’ve had to deal with a stalker in the past. After that, I learned not to put all my eggs into one basket. If someone recognizes me here they won’t get acces to my entire message history now.

  • steeznson@lemmy.world
    11·
    3 days ago

    Never mind these no name nobodies in the other comments. I have decided to grace this thread. Please continue to anoint me with rare fragrances and oils; fan me with large palm tree leaves, etc.

  • PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    22·
    3 days ago

    Well, there’s no following here, there are just people who create posts way too often in too many communities, so you see them all the time - like cm0002, I also see a lot of Deceptichum and LadyButterfly but not as much as cm0002

    • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
      111·
      3 days ago

      Yes that is the crucial difference. Without followers determining your reach, every post earns it’s upvotes on an equal footing with the others, regardless of author.

      It’s a much better system.

      Follower-based networks like Mastodon and Twitter inevitably end up with a handful of people dominating the space because their posts get boosted which gets them more followers which gets them more boosts etc in a spiraling way. This attracts narcissists and drama queens.

    • BB84@mander.xyzEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      cm0002 is a a repost bot lol. if you’re upvoting their content you’re harming the fediverse.

      • FleetwoodLinux@lemmy.zip
        5·
        3 days ago

        They say they just have an RSS feed and they manually crosspost. I haven’t looked into if they have times they’re inactive (both because it’s not worth my time, and it’s particularly annoying now with the 30 different accounts), but their behavior is incredibly bot-like even if they’re not literally a bot. I’ve noticed a few times (read: this isn’t a valid statistical sample omg) that they got the cross post off within a minute of the original post.

        • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          2 days ago

          They’re not a bot, just a user extremely dedicated to breaking up the Threadiverse over the political comments the Lemmy devs have made.

  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
    13·
    3 days ago

    Oh. We exist.

    You may need to be subbed to a relevant community (for me it’s anime girls) to repeatedly see a given user to the point that you start recognizing them. I certainly have users I recognize.

    You might know me for running the dailycomic bot that has continued the CnH posting after the original mod stopped doing it manually, or the !moomin@sopuli.xyz community.

    But I know for a fact most people who’d recognize my handle, consider me “the anime girl poster”. I use the same username in games, and have been asked “are you the MentalEdge from Lemmy” once, which was new.

    From my perspective there are also people who comment often enough that I remember them.

    There’s the guy that posts a daily collection of screenshots from games he is playing, along with commentary on how he likes the games.

    There’s a couple big names over on lemmyshitpost.

    Same goes for tenforward.

    There’s Blaze, who I know as a general background engine of activity and advocate for good on the fediverse.

    There’s a bunch more, but I’m not gonna bombard them with mentions.

  • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
    11·
    3 days ago

    There was FlyingSquid who was a “power user” and mod, posting seemingly 24 hours a day, but he seems to have vanished off the face of the earth. Apart from that the only users I recognize are the ones I typically have regular disagreements with over politics.

  • SaneMartigan@lemmy.world
    8·
    3 days ago

    FWIW I tend to block power users on whatever site I’m on. It feels like going to a party and having three people come and stand between you and the party. I also block a ton of meme and nonsense groups, that’s not why I come to lemmy.

  • Crozekiel@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    Isn’t Mastodon part of the “threadiverse”?

    Also, I feel like there are definitely names I see a lot and recognize, but I don’t think my memory for spelling would be able to write them down here… lol

    • CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      3 days ago

      I don’t include it in my mental model, personally, but I don’t think the term has a well-agreed-upon meaning. I use fediverse for any federated activitypub server, like mastodon and pixelfed, and then use threadiverse for the community/post/thread style instances like lemmy, mbin and piefed. For me, the threadiverse is the subset of the fediverse where you say, “oh, that’s just like reddit!”

      • Crozekiel@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        Oh shit, you’re right, I think I got confused with fediverse. lol, I’m not sure i’d heard “threadiverse” until this post now that I think about it.