Well see EVERYBODY knows The MASTA CHIEF

Yeah. I see a bunch of the same accounts, but that’s probably because they’re active in the same communities I am. I see a lot more accounts I don’t recognize though.

Damn I need to post more.

Definitely. It helps that I tend to stick to the less mainstream lemmy communities (mostly the queer communities on blahaj.zone). It's to a point where it can be rare for me to enter a popular comment section without seeing at least 1 or 2 recognizable usernames.

To be honest, I kind of enjoy the smallness of the platform at times, it reminds me of what the old internet has always been described as to me (but with faster data transfer, and more features)

If you're a regular on any of the communities I mod, I remember your username. Any new username to me immediately stands out.

Yes, based on the way they talk actually, not by their usernames...

No it’s all the same to me and I don’t even care about the usernames

Yeah a handful of people, but I’m terminally online when I’m between my terminally offline tasks

I've had some really bad brain fog for most of the year, so while I'm generally not able to recall them on the spot, I certainly do see quite a few that makes me go "Oh hey I remember that one!".

I like that the Threadiverse is still kinda at the size that this still happens quite a bit.

I'd be very surprised if I were recognized since I've been quite bad about contributing to the conversation, but I still enjoy things around here nonetheless!

Just a few, mostly prominent people from the OpenStreetMap community that I recognize by their username/profile picture.

Sometimes I also tend to see my instance admin sometimes, but it's more rare.

Ickplant moderates and is the main poster for !otters@lemmy.world , !bats@lemmy.world , !opossums@lemmy.world and !beavers@lemmy.world which, together are about half my Subscribed feed. BonesOfTheMoon fills my feed with !poetry@lemmy.world which is nice.

i haven;t paid attention to someones username unless they brought it up

No, somehow the usernames are not very prominent and especially the avatars are so small that I practically don't see them.

Definitely. Also remember avatars a lot.

A few mods, a few hard online posters, and I think like 2 or 3 devs of various projects including lemmy lol.

I have never recognised usernames.