The threadiverse is small (compared to other major platforms) and I often see usernames that I recognize. How well do we notice each other around here?
I’ll start… my name’s “MrShankles” and I do be commenting/posting from time to time
I generally don’t recognize usernames and don’t look at them too much
There’s the guy who uses thorns (who I have tagged as Nigel þornberry)
There’s maybe a half-dozen frequent posters who I’m genuinely not sure if they’re masterful trolls, some kind of AI training bots, or just really need to go touch grass (preferably on their way to a therapist’s office.)
There’s one dude whose username just happened to stick out to me after having a random conversation or two with him and seeing him being a generally pretty decent dude around Lemmy, I tagged him “this guy seems cool” at some point, and at some point it occurred to me that he might appreciate knowing that, so I shot him a message, and sure enough he did. I now consider him to be a pretty good friend, which is a new experience for me, I’ve never really been one to have online friends, I (somehow) do pretty well at making friends in meatspace and have never really felt a need to seek out an online friendship.
There’s a handful of people who have said some incredibly dumb shit that I’ve tagged (for example one dude who I tagged “Tankie, down vote and ignore” although the last few times I’ve seen him pop up it seems like he may have mellowed out a bit, so good for him)
Nigel þornberry
Made me laugh :D
Fully-qualified usernames:
There’s the guy who uses thorns (who I have tagged as Nigel þornberry)
That’d be @Sxan@piefed.zip.
þat is indeed þe guy
I also love how bent-out-of-shape people get over the thorns.
I haven’t stalked his profile, but I feel like every time I’ve seen him come up he’s also seemed like a pretty cool and reasonable dude (I suppose it’s possible he’s off being a dick in the parts of Lemmy I don’t frequent, but I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt)
I have snarked him about it, myself. I have no objection to overtly affected personal expression (no hypocrite I). It’s just that reading a thorn unexpectedly feels like stubbing my toe, but in my brain.
for me the bogus rationalizations took it from something I could cope with to something that actively irritates me. maybe that’s part of the art.
Maybe. People usually have good reasons for doing things, to supplement the real reasons.
Sxan talks to me all the time and has always been great. I barely register the thorns now.
It’s harmless but it’s deliberately antisocial which rubs people the wrong way. They’re going out of their way to make their comments harder to reader.
I’ve never had a bad interaction with them but I do think it’s kind of obnoxious attention-seeking behavior
Shout-out to “Nigel þornberry”
I’ve the thorn guy tagged as “uses thorns” and am now shamed about my lack of creativity.
I had someone else tagged as “second guy to use thorns” but they’re a lot less consistent about it.
Added the tag now 😂
Ah Nigel þornberry. I appreciate the dedication to thorns, but ended up writing a script which replaces thorns in their texts because they stand out too much.
What happened to flying squid? They had some health problems and then talked about moving and then disappeared.
If you check in lemvotes you can see some activity from time to time, so I don’t think they are dead. It could be a federation issue but they at least appear to have logged in and had some vote activities in December.
Regardless they did not have a healthy relationship with Lemmy. They were averaging something on the order of 15 comments, per hour, per day. That’s a comment every 4 minutes, all day, every day, for years.
Idk. We should still probably build something to remember them by. Or to piss on, depending on how you viewed them. They were very political and were doing a lot of “pre blaming” for the, at the time, election which hadn’t happened yet. I think it may have broken them.
I think it may have broken them.
sure as fuck broke me.
whatever hope I had left in humanity putrefied.
They spent a lot of time traveling and waiting for medical tests and results with their mom. I attributed the activity to the stress and excess time on their hands.
@flyingsquid@lemmy.world
Last I saw, moved to the UK, was looking at getting a job there, and I assume stopped using the Threadiverse to dedicate more time to real life. Doesn’t look like he’s been commenting in a year:
https://lemmy.world/post/25764717/15184325
I told a member of an LGBT organization in York, UK that I would be happy for any help I can get regarding finding me a job above the UK family visa income threshold so my gay daughter can stay here longer than six months after he offered to look over my CV and give me pointers… for the glory of the empire?
I recognize kolanki (I doubt I’m spelling it correctly, but the person with the large blue name), pugjesus, the picard maneuver, violet08, that fucking cm0002 with the 5,000 alt accounts, and that’s about it.
Fully-qualified usernames:
- @kolanaki@pawb.social
- @PugJesus@piefed.social
- @The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world
- @violet08_@lemmy.world
- @cm0002@infosec.pub
EDIT:
kolanki (I doubt I’m spelling it correctly, but the person with the large blue name)
Also, I can’t resist: Every dog has his day.
(Kolanaki has a canine fursona.)
We used to see a MargotRobbie but they stopped. Dunno why. They committed to the bit, though.
MargotRobbie
Fully-qualified username: @MargotRobbie@lemmy.world
Ladybutterfly or something like that
Fully-qualified username: @LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone
I could recognise a violet or PugJesus post without nametags! I enjoy both posters’ content although violet’s is a bit concerning and less educational, lol. Oh, and the guy who only posts anti-Western narratives memes, he always gets downvoted but he keeps at it like Marx’s strongest soldier 😅. There was also this maniac called Satan’sSomethingSomething I just had to block on two different accounts. Finally, there are several posters I have personally tagged cause I regularly see eye to eye with them, or at least I consider reasonable, prosocial and capable of having a normal conversation (flaxvert, Maeve, VikingHippie, among others). 👍
Fully-qualified usernames:
- Did violet08_@lemmy.world elsewhere.
- Did PugJesus@piefed.social elsewhere.
- Did SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world elsewhere.
- Couldn’t identify the “flaxvert” user you mentioned.
- @Maeve@lemmygrad.ml
- @VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf
Ty for your service!
Yeah, you’ve got the list of the same people I generally clock as known users.
only posts anti-Western narratives memes
yugthos or sth
i often wonder whether they get paid
but honestly i prefer 1 account that’s posting propaganda over 10000 small accounts that are posting propaganda.
also some of their takes are actually good.
I tag folks based off interactions, so after a couple years on here there’s a lot of names I recognize. Most of them are regular posters or admins (Pugjesus, Stametz, Violet08, Mrdown, Picard Manuver, Geneva Convenience, ada, db0, etc. who don’t need to be bothered with tags) or people who I have a special friendship with like @AntiBullyRanger (I really hope you’re doin’ okay) or my legit bro @toynbee@piefed.social
Then theres various regular commentators on my NSFW posts like @StrangeBedfellow@lemmynsfw.com and @Keepthoseeyeslockedonmine@kinkycats.org who I appreciate a ton!
(Personally, I was once asked out of the blue by @WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today to give my opinion in a discussion about battery tech. I think at the end this will probably be where I consider my life to have peaked.)
Fully-qualified usernames:
- Did PugJesus@piefed.social elsewhere.
- @Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Did violet08_@lemmy.world elsewhere.
- @mrdown@lemmy.world
- Did The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world elsewhere.
- @geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
- Did ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone elsewhere.
- @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- @AntiBullyRanger@ani.social
- @toynbee@piefed.social (Every time I see this one, I think of the Toynbee tiles. I once asked them, and they said that they were unrelated to that phenomenon.)
RuhRoh I just did those too lol. Pings for everyone!
Also Toy if u are responsible for the tiles and have been holding out I will be so mad
I guess it’s like a pat on the head for being considered notable, so probably as long as there aren’t too many, they’ll be tolerant. :-) Probably.
Well at least one person on that list thinks I’m an open nazi so… Probably I should have rethought the tags. But ah well I’m tipsy lets go.
O_O who is that?
I don’t want to overly directly call someone out/incite brigading/etc. but I probably should have been more clear given I do tend to irk people. Hilariously though I’m not talking about the person who downvoted me (sorry @mrdown@lemmy.dbzer0.com, I completely forgot we got into it recently, I did not mean you)
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Nah, but a few years after I chose this username I was walking around Philadelphia and randomly saw one in the street. Basically no one who’s part of my offline life uses that name so it was weird to encounter unexpectedly.
That the name is referencing the tiles is usually people’s first guess, but I chose this long before I’d heard of them. When the 2001 X-Men movie came out I was looking for a new username. In the movie they just show the character Toad in his villainous role, but in the novelization they cover more of his life, including his secret identity of Mortimer Toynbee. I liked it and adopted it. It’s almost never taken anywhere, either, which is nice.
I didn’t expect to show up in this thread at all, let alone multiple times. It’s nice to know I’ve made an impression!
Toynbee
The name sticks out because it’s so uncommon and I’ve always loved Bradbury, though I wouldn’t consider this particular story to be one of my favorites.
Fascinating - I believe I’ve heard of the story, but never read it or any summaries of it.
Based on the referenced historian, perhaps I am that traveler, as this was many years before I was born.
But it cannot be, for I would never voluntarily allow it to be capitalized …
<3
I mostly recognize you for consistently having pretty good takes even when most of the thread isn’t
Lol thank you, it for sure hasn’t made me the most popular person but at the very least it’s not boring.
I can’t believe I didn’t get you on the list. You’re great! I can’t remember exactly why I tagged you as “lesbOG” but it’s pretty funny. Or at least, I think it’s funny. And really, what else could possibly matter?
Yeahhhhh people on here sometimes behave in ways I’m going to be charitable and describe as contentious or particularly emotionally committed. Like all the internet as a whole has had that problem since I was a kid browsing forums, but it’s certainly sometimes a bit much here.
And I absolutely love that tag lol
Actually there is one user I appreciate seeing around that I didn’t see mentioned anywhere here. Toomanypancakes is delightful
When I start recognizing a username it’s usually because that person is about to get blocked. Applies to quite many users mentioned here too.
I think the small size of the platform is a bit of an issue in this case. The only way to not get “famous” here is by constantly having to make new accounts.
I happen to recognize your username. Not for any particular reason, and you’re on +6 in my tracking, so I guess that’s a good thing
I’ve been here for 2 years and I only recognize violet08 and the_Picard_maneuver. Oh and Nicole, the girl with glasses who wanted me
Oh man, lots. Ada, Kolanki, WorldsDumbestMan, SatansMaggottyCumFart, Neidu, LadyButterfly, CaptainLezbian, CptAggravated, that one guy with the Chinese symbols whose mom is a piece of work, Stamets when he’s posting, Sunshine, Blaze, DistantSounds, Sodalite - the list goes on and on.
I may spend too much time here, lol.
Oh hey I’m being recognized. I definitely spend too much time here. Also my teachers may have been right when I was growing up, I really don’t know how to shut up.
For what it’s worth, the recognition is “they seem to have a good head on their shoulders”
There’s a guy who thinks I’m some kind of troll or bot and tries to “call me out” by name every once in a while, I suppose that counts.
Personally, I try not to pay close attention to usernames - I want to engage with what’s said, not form opinions about the people saying it.
Do they have strong opinions about AI and tendency to dig through your message history?
They do indeed. There is perhaps a possibility we’re thinking of the same fellow.
Truly one of the strangest people I’ve ever encountered here. I finally gave in and just blocked them after every attempt at a coherent exchange failed miserably. Nothing I say registers and everything I get back has nothing to do with what was said before. I can’t even accuse them of being a bot because I have better discussions with actual bots.
For me, one of the great things about this general style of “News Aggregation” social media is that it’s community/topic focused rather than being focused on individual personalities/identities. So, in that respect, I really don’t notice or pay attention to the usernames, aside from blocking/filtering out all the crumby people that make this place a much worse experience for me. Out of sight, out of mind, so I couldn’t even tell you who those people are.
aside from blocking/filtering out all the crumby people
I find that so strange. I never have blocked anyone on any platform and I have been doing that chat with people for a really long time. Like back in the bbs days. I have never found it necessary, and often find that I disagree with someone on one thing, only to find we have common interests elsewhere.
I see people say they block people a lot, but why would you do it? Does it really matter? Do you not simply skip over what is not interesting to you?
I’m probably just really good at identifying bad online behavior with people who will never ever contribute anything of value to me or the platform. If all they’re ever going to do is bring negativity and bad vibes, it actually saves me time in the long run to filter them out so I can focus on the actual decent people.
I’m actually a bit surprised by the responses here. I know a lot of the names mentioned here, but there are more I don’t recognize than I had expected. Sometimes it does feel a little small of a group here, but seeing both the number of names I do recall aaaand all the ones I don’t both help me feel this place is about 50% bigger than I had felt.
It seems there are more of you I’ve yet to get to know. 😄
What I’m really curious of is how many people’s block lists I’m on. I’m pretty rarely controversial, but I’m sure I’ve had to have annoyed someone by now or bored someone to tears with endless owl superbness.
I tend not to recognize your username, because I’m bad at names, but I do always recognize superb owls. Keep it up! (You know, if you want to, I’m not your boss.)
I’m here to get attention for the owls, not myself, or I would have picked a better name. 😄
I just want to teach people how great they are so you all want to donate to and volunteer at your local animal rescues.
ah! i recognized your name but didnt place where from till you mentioned it haha, most recognizable anon out there!
long reign the superb owls!
where did your owl fascination start? are you on the spectrum? (feel free not to answer if you don’t want to, im undiagnosed but 99.9% sure I am)
Yes, I have really failed on staying anonymous. I’ve doxxed myself so much on here the only things I haven’t really given you at some point is a face reveal and my real name. I chose the name as just a simple throwaway since I was planning to just be a lurker, but the community soon started dying and I didn’t want to see that. I may have gone a bit overboard. 😅 You guys all seem to really love it though. I get so many DMs from people that really love what I share.
I never used to really think about them. I thought they were neat, but they never really took up much thought. My wife was the one that was a bigger fan, so one day I took her to a raptor rescue, and really getting to spend a bit of time around them apparently formed a connection. I would say I was still pretty normal about it until I started posting here. Then, after doing it every day, I really started to get an idea of how amazing these birds actually are. I’ve been doing this daily now for 3 years, and I still am learning new things about them on a regular basis. And starting last year, just reading and visiting wasn’t enough, so I volunteered at my local rescue. We don’t get too many owls since we’re a bit more suburban, but I’ve gotten to handle a few, feed them, and I even got to release a rehabbed owl at our house on my wife’s birthday! Our open house is the end of May, and I was supposed to get to hold one of our educational owls for 2 whole days and how it to people and teach them about it, but they sadly both passed of old age over the winter! 😢 I’ve gotten 2 life sized plushes that are fairly anatomically accurate I will be weighting to bring them up to realistic weight for our state’s 2 most common owls, so people will be able to hold a realistic facsimile since people aren’t allowed to touch our animals, and I also made 8 life sized cutouts that one of our artists is painting for me so people can see all the owls of our state together in one place. I’ll add pics in a moment of what I have so far.
I do not believe I am on the spectrum, I think I just love learning, but as it’s a spectrum, who the heck knows. I’m at an age before diagnosing these things was a regular thing if it wasn’t severe. My lifelong best friend is totally what was formally known as Aspergers, I think it’s just properly called Autism Spectrum Disorder nowadays, and after learning about it, I feel it benefit him to not be labeled something like that back in the 80s when we were kids and it still seemed heavily stigmatized, because now he’s a college science professor, head of the science dept, and is debating becoming dean of the school. I don’t think that would have happened if he got shuffled off to special classes back in our day. I’ve just always been bookish, fairly introverted, and had a lifelong love of learning. I don’t feel anything inherent about me has ever given me issue to the point I’d be diagnosed with something, but autism doesn’t seem to be looked at the way it was decades ago. I love hearing people talk about their passions, so it doesn’t matter to me if someone is on the spectrum or not.
This reply looks long so I’m going to shut up now and find you some of my project pictures.
Templates to make my wood cutouts and to give the painter references.
Finished cutouts
Plushies next to their respective cutouts. The small Screech is larger, so she will be weighted as a female, and the Great Horned is a little small, so he’ll be weighted to be a male.
First 4 painted by our artist. Exceeded my expectations!
Those are awesome! I bet getting to work with raptors/owls is so interesting, kudos for finding a passion! We really do have some cool people around here
It’s really satisfying to both learn about our local wildlife, and also to see so many caring people all in one place while it feels like the world is going to hell. It has really made me appreciate my community and local environment.
The owls are beautiful and amazing, but they are also kinda the biggest a-hole cats you’ve ever met. The hawks and corvids are more “fun” since they are often curious and a bit more interactive with me in positive ways. We also have a wild bald eagle right now in addition to our ambassador bald eagle, and they are just undeniably impressive creatures to see up close. I’m also constantly surprised to see animals come in that I didn’t even know lived in this part of the country. We had a Brown Thrasher, which is apparently called the Eastern Roadrunner because it runs around a lot on the ground. We also sometimes get minks and beavers from the very southern part of our county. With us being mainly suburban, I don’t think of these guys still being so close to us. And there’s tons of more somewhat ordinary animals like kinds of frogs and turtles I’ve never previously learned about.
This is a Diamondback Terrapin that prefers our one sink to the turtle tanks, so they called her Sadie Sink. The photo doesn’t do her justice! The patterns on her skin and shell are so amazing!
So far, nobody’s mentioned recognizing me, despite the fact that I feel like I comment a lot (an unhealthy amount, really).
I’m not sure whether to feel insulted or relieved.
I recognize you!
In the sense I’m scared of the grues.
There’t something about your username that sounds…gruesome…
I for one, enjoy being a faceless number lol
There is a good point to have for low profile lurkinators
I recognize your name and have no negative memories of your comments
Are you cursed or something? I have you at +194/-1 but only vaguely recognize your name. I have no idea how I’ve interacted with someone (let alone a classic video game reference) so many times without forming an opinion of them!
There are a few names I informally had good vibes for. I started using tagging to keep track of folks a bit. This especially helped with the opposite because blocking someone who is grossely bad is an easy decision but I like to give the benefit of the doubt. Now I can tag. It kinda gives me this this I wanted from trust cafe where you can rate verything but instead I tag it.
I think you and I must have had the same journey, exiting Reddit, trying different things I’d never heard of before, and eventually finding Lemmy to be the one that sticks.
