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 like this place, plus it’s a small enough platform that I thought seeing my comments with a “blank” avi probably gets annoying after a while ¯\(ツ)/¯
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
I joined after Reddit’s API changes with that site’s willful negligence of its bot infestation on my mind. If the bar for “this account looks like a human” is raised by human users individualizing themselves more, then that requires more effort on bot makers to disguise their bots as people. Accounts look less bot-like with personalities, particularly those which are neither stereotypically normal nor a caricature of a few base traits. With my “The Son of Man” profile picture, as well as my profile description that is all three of esoteric, farcical, and personal, I wanted to be just the right amount of weird while also subtly (and perhaps subconsciously) commentating on the potentiality of Lemmy eventually falling victim to bot plagues as it grows. Despite all of this, I’ve since come across another user with the same profile picture (with a different level of zoom) who also happened to have the same cake day.
I didn’t realize its a lesser used feature. There was probably generic auto-assigned pfp and I dont like those.
I like spaceships…
I use the same avatar in every network I’m in. Is kinda my internet persona, although is not “me”, its has his own name and everything, Dusk.
Wait, there are default avatars? Who has a default avatar? How do I tell them apart?
Anyway, in my case, I’m this random you know, and since my account is Mothra I figured the avatar should reflect that
It woofs sadly
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.
Because I am so pretty?
It amused me.
I’m used to having an avatar of some kind. Plus I think it looks good.
It’s an ornithological avatar. I’m trying to raise mass awareness of a certain avian variety.
I just thought it looked nice? I don’t feel like the little icon stands out. I honestly don’t notice icons to be fair.
When I first signed up for Lemmy I was just curious to check out how that feature worked (after I found it while browsing through the profile settings to see what was there).
