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.
K O L A N A K
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.
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.
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.
Ooh, I wonder what power-up you’re holding?
Off the top of my head, a lot. @FlyingSquid, @The_Picard_Maneuver, @AngryCommieKender, @captainlezbian, @DragonTypeWyvern, @Cryophilia, @masquenox, @jimmydoreisalefty, @SatansMaggotyCumFart, @BonesOfTheMoon, @1984, @Cryophilia, @Nurse_Robot. Some of them just have very memorable or kick-ass names (Nurse Robot? Why didn’t I think of that???), and some of them are unavoidable on the site.
I also usually remember the active conservative and “centrist” specimens on this site, like
intensely_human,IsThisAnAI,TubularTittyFrog,SpaceCowboy,Melvin_Ferd. I tend to strongly disagree with them a lot.I’ve blocked half of the ones you list. Lol.
After being outted on Reddit years ago, I made a rule to myself. If I ever become known on a platform (or on Reddit, reach 100000 upvotes), I’d delete my account and start over.
Frankly, some of the shit I’ve said could get me in trouble at work or my real life. So the anonymity is a boon.
If I was counting reddit, this would be my 13th account.
This is an interesting way of thinking about things. I would have probably agreed entirely with this when I was a kid on the early Internet, experimenting, making mistakes, and figuring out who I was and what sort of person I wanted to strive to be.
Now, as a middle-aged old fart who has used the same screenname everywhere online for decades, I generally prefer to fully consider everything I say, whether online or in real life, and contribute things I truly mean to put out there as myself. I also prefer to have a real life, job, family and friends, etc. compatible with the weirdass person I genuinely am everywhere, which includes my online work, activities, opinions, shitposts, etc.
For example, I got so active in subcultural projects and stuff from my online life over the years that things from it built up into legitimate features of my real-life portfolios and resumes and get talked about in job interviews, so I simply don’t pursue work at places which would have a problem with finding that stuff out about me. Similarly, my universal screenname and weird online stuff were in my profile on the dating app where I met the person to whom I’m now happily married, and that person enjoys and even helps me do my weird online bullshit while being the greatest real-life partner I could ever ask for.
It’s all come together in a rather comfy way for me, and I ultimately find it a much more freeing way to live than trying to do the secret-identity thing.
As a social activist and tech worker, my interests bleed into hacking, security, and doing the right thing. During my work with BLM, one of my aliases was targeted by right wing trolls. Easy to dissolve and make a new one. I worked with activists who have had their children targeted, their neighbors targeted, even their jobs threatened.
My friends and family, wife and children do not deserve any backlash for my comments.
These are good points, and a lot of people may find that sort of separation useful.
Personally I’m also an activist involved with hacker culture, independent journalism, and weird art and comedy stuff, but I’ve come to a point where I don’t really feel much need to separate that from the rest of my life; the mundane me is hacker me, activist me, etc. I’m also pretty confident that if I said or did something stupid enough to involve backlash from anyone whose opinion matters to me, not only would I probably have earned the criticism but my wife would be first in line to tell me I’m being an ass.
This is a security risk though, fyi, someone could pics together all the info and exploit it.
If everyone in my real life already knows what I’m like online and vice versa, what’s to exploit?
They can exploit you , one example: “Firefly it’s me your (known family member) I’m stuck at school (known school, place of work, etc) but lost my phone, can you send $50 to (scammer address) to pay back this nice person helping me get home please?” is the weakest variation.
Joke’s on them, I’m no good for money even when it’s legit. 💸
Hey, I’ve seen you commenting around here before!
And he’s gone
I’m strongly considering it very soon!
It would appear fame is beginning to ketchup with you once again, Mr Spud.
Once again we’ve consumed far too much of your crisp saltiness. It would appear what remains of your role here has been burned, and will soon be off the table.
Check please.
I’m the same. I’ve got like 17 reddit accounts with so much karma that I could probably make a couple bucks selling them. Instead I’ve just abandoned them and made new ones. This is my 3rd Lemmy account so far with similar number of comments. I should’ve made a new account by now anyway. Kind of glad no one has mentioned my name here though my ego would’ve liked if someone did.
While some have already been mentioned, I’d also like to call out that we do have the esteemed Academy Award winning actress, Margot Robbie in Lemmy! She posts when she can, and I’m really hoping one day she’ll do an Ask Me Anything with us.
Yay
I thought she was only nominated?
She’s a winner in my heart
🥰
Lemmy supports Margot, no questions.
Shocked nobody seems to have brought up ThePicardManuever yet
Him and Stamets are easily the ones who kept me here a year ago
Shocked nobody seems to have brought up ThePicardManuever yet
And @willya@lemmyf.uk 😏
FlyingSquid, BonesoftheMoon, jeffw, and thePicardManeuver are the ones I recognize because I see them so often.
You mention ThePicardManeuver but leave out Stamets@lemmy.world???
These are the ones I keep seeing too except for Jeff. I see Picard all the time
jeffw is news articles mostly.
Kolnax? Or someone because it’s huge and blue
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Has anyone seen academy award nominated actress Margot Robbie lately?
Maybe she’s busy working and can’t spend as much time messing with tech friends on social media or something.
that makes sense. hopefully she knows she’s not been forgotten.
Nope. But I mean I don’t even remember names of people irl, haha
So, how many people scrolled through this thread looking to see if they were mentioned? 😛
It would be very surprising if you weren’t mentioned.
But just in case, I notice you! :P
<3
Legendary
Waves from background
Mostly mods because they’re the only ones posting content lol
Nope I never pay attention to usernames and images.
Yeah, especially that bird picture person and the big letter person.
FlyingSquid is the only one I recognize and I feel like he’s lemmys GallowBoob from reddit.
Unlike Gallowboob, Flying Squid posts interesting things I genuinely enjoy instead of generic gruel obviously calculated to farm upvotes from the mainstream. Flying Squid is also an interesting and fun participant in the comments and seems like a pretty cool person, while I seen to remember Gallowboob coming off like he’d be an insufferable jackass in real life.
I don’t remember him being like that early on so if he is/was it probably influenced from user interactions and let’s be honest, people could be pretty toxic. I agree though about Flying Squid, they seem pretty cool.
GallowBoob was more bot like. Did he really chime in that much?
Early on he would, but you are right I always suspected the account was more of a marketing firm of several people and the guy was just the public face of the account.
I think that’s one of my earliest blocks. Lol.
