Wonder the same thing a lot. I change mine up semi-regularly, same with my profile banner, but that's just me being bored.

The thing that drives me insane is when a community doesn't use the icon. The FUCK ARE YOU DOING.

I'm lazy.

I have everyone else's avatars hidden anyway so wouldn't make much sense to set one for myself. I just don't see the appeal.

You guys have avatars?!?

There are avatars?

My app do display them, but I hadn't paid attention to it.

Because I hadn't even thought of it.

On Reddit, it changed to something semi-unique and, even though I never changed it, I somehow identified with it.

With 21x21 avatars, the question is why even have this functionality in the first place. That size is too small to matter.

I set my avatar, but I use old.lemmy.world and can't see it anyway.

They are just so small idrc about others so I dont bother to put one

My what?

Gonna chime in here and agree that its because its because I never see anyone else's or mine, even on the website

I tried, there was an issue uploading the picture and I just couldn't be bothered to look deeper into it.

Didn’t know they were a thing and Voyager doesn’t support them.

As a software developer I’ve come to realise that most of the stuff I put extra attention to, actual users don’t care and now in just do what people ask for and nothing more.

Why would you add one? Who even sees it? This reddit/lemmy style of posting and commenting has always worked with just a username and a comment and I like it that way. If my app started showing them I'd either turn them off or find a new app.

Because it's an anonymous website?

I thought that they were dumb on Reddit and I think they're even dumber here.

Can't see them on Lemmy Connect either. I like having this platform be as distanced from social media attributes as possible. Like other users have said, every extra bit of anonymity is a boon.

I have a username. That's all the identifying I need. Why do you feel the need to twitterfy lemmy?

If I care enough about another user to note them across time and communities, I give them a tag.

In the other direction, I don't expect anyone to recall my username from one thread to another, to build any sense of my broader personhood greater than one interaction provides.

An avatar just seems unnecessary. I'm also on an app that only displays them if I go out of my way to see them.

I can't see anyone's avatars and did not know I could set one, but I also wouldn't if I could as I think they're always a bit cringe. I prefer the sea of anonymity.

Boost only shows them on individual user profile pages, not in threads, so I don't even know who has one to go look at it.

None of my reddit accounts had avatars either. I would get banned so quickly it didn't make sense.

If it seems like Lemmy is a more welcoming place, I might make the effort. Not sure yet.

You sunuvabitch, I'm in!