There’s been a couple of minor dust-ups on mastodon about the conduct of so-called “big accounts” there that I do not care to comment on, but it has got me thinking — do we even have “big accounts” on the threadiverse (Lemmy/piefed/mbin)? I don’t think there’s any handle I’ve seen where I’ve been like “oh yeah, that person.” Am I just bad at remembering usernames, or does the community/thread style of discussion remove all continuity for a single account?
PugJesus and The_Picard_Maneuver have already been named. The former basically single handedly keeping some history communities alive and the latter a lot of meme and Star Trek content.
For specific communities, @BallShapedMan@lemmy.world is a mainstay on !artshare@lemmy.world
@Agent_Karyo@piefed.world posts a lot of gaming content.
@MimicJar@lemmy.world is basically keeping !thesimpsons@lemmy.world in the feed signelhandedly.
I used to use user tags to better track who is who under an old app then switched to voyager which didn’t have it at the time. It’s in there now just off, I just turned it on and will start using it again. I don’t see a way to display user pics/avatars I miss having those for when someone set it to something colorful or memorable it would be easy to spot.
Ozma telling you the world is plagued by liberals…
Never mind these no name nobodies in the other comments. I have decided to grace this thread. Please continue to anoint me with rare fragrances and oils; fan me with large palm tree leaves, etc.
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Plenty of accounts that I see commenting here regularly. Not “big accounts” per se but rather just people I seem to be running into constantly. This is such a small platform that it’s pretty easy to get niche fame. That’s why I’m on my 10th account.
You’re on your tenth account because you’re worried that people will get a sense of who you are and what you stand for?
I’ve had to deal with a stalker in the past. After that, I learned not to put all my eggs into one basket. If someone recognizes me here they won’t get acces to my entire message history now.
Makes sense! I’m sorry that happened to you, and thanks for sharing.
this is lemmy we’re talking about. There’s as much censorship as reddit, just opposite political sides
This is manifestly untrue. You can stand up an instance and literally no-one can censor you.
Obviously meant through a regular account on your average instance
And yea you can be censored through defederation
Considering how ml keeps only temp banning me instead of perm banning, I would say it’s significantly less than reddit
Oh, hey, are you the same Combat Wombat from the mastodon watch parties?
I don’t think so? I am on mastodon but it’s my only fedi account that doesn’t have a wombat in it.
ooh I was thinking of this person: https://hachyderm.io/@combatwombat
I didn’t realize there was a whole platoon of such wombats.
I only use the esq because it’s so hard to get combat wombat on even new platforms. I’m actually not a lawyer at all.
Wait. You guys look at posters’ names?
I’m astounded. I had no idea.
I don’t think we have any accounts for Big the Cat, no.
You don’t recognise Satan’s Maggoty Cum Fart?
I’ve been meaning to propose marriage to that mad lad, but I keep forgetting. Not a real marriage though, it’s to tied down, more like a federated marriage where anyone can join and leave when they want and block out corporations they don’t like… maybe more of an aquantience rather.
One of my favs
Not the hero we need, but the ons we deserve.
I know of a @SantasMagicalComfort@piefed.world lmao
Wasn’t that just their Christmas alt?
The_picard_maneuver I feel was a large reason there was even enough meme content to make it start feeling like a reddit replacement for me. I don’t hate power users here since we need more posts to keep the fediverse content active. Maybe if we had 10k+ upvote posts in a single day it’d get old seeing the same faces, but if the content is good it’s elevated. I’d only want something done about it if there were bots who follow-voted to achieve misleading numbers.
Whatever happened to him?
https://piefed.world/u/The_Picard_Maneuver he’s still active and modding a few communities still.
the Kolanaki guy, that Chinese guy who keeps changing his name but has an ROC flag profile picture, LadyButterfly (she posts a lot in a community I moderate, very pleasant person). I think I’ve had my scrapings with Pugjesus and afraidofzombies, good to have discussion. There’s also someone on here called “Satan’s maggoty cum fart”
Oh and YappyMonotheist is one of my favourites. He’s a very pleasant gentleman.There was a mormon guy here called Baldprophet, haven’t seen him in ages
Flying Squid was memorable but has been gone for a while. My understanding was they moved to a different country and haven’t posted since.
I remember them. Moved to the UK. Emperor帝 also disappeared.
I think there’s a small handful of powerusers like LadyButterfly, Stamets, The_Picard_Maneuver, formerly FlyingSquid, etc, but they seem to me mostly non-problematic, mostly don’t seem to overreach, and all seem to be actual people who actually interact and engage in discussions as members of their respective communities. I think some of them could post less or be more discerning in what they post, if it was up to me, but I understand that currently all of these type of users are interested in the growth of Lemmy and motivated to do their part to provide content, so I appreciate them vastly more than any critique I have of them. I am wary of the influence and soft power that can be accrued by powerusers, but as of right now I personally don’t think it’s a particular issue the community is currently facing.
But also I am not the most active or engaged community member, especially in the drama or social politics side of the fediverse, so the likelihood of blindspots in my view is high, I’ll admit.
Know anything about squid? I was wondering if they ever got a diagnosis.
Hope he’s doing alright
Nothing at all. I don’t know any of these users other than through brief interactions in comments.
There’s that guy who makes accounts on seemingly every instance imaginable and seems to be a moderator on dozens of communities as well.
The one who makes meta posts about the fediverse or the one who is obsessed with ml and hexbear ?
You talking about c0002 or c002?
Or Blaze
I do wish we had more granular controls of what to block and when, but maybe that’s on me to make that.
All of these users have great stuff, but sometimes their posts to certain communities may align less with my interests. I’ve mostly resorted to blocking those entire communities, but if I could block posts to that community only by specific users, that would be better.
There’s a handful of posters here that I definitely recognize. I don’t know if I’d call any of them big accounts, though that may not be a bad thing.
Are they mostly people who are active in your favorite community or just people who you see around sometimes?
In my case both. Some people are 90% of the posts in the community but others are really healthy with more posters.
Reddit was like this once a decace ago. With much worse mod tools amd less transpatency.
Iteration is key for building a better platform after all!
(With all the mistakes on record from someone else XD)
Both for me too.
I create new accounts every so often, and need to block all the same assholes again.
I wouldn’t describe them as “big” accounts, they’re just prolific posters of annoying trash.
Not all of them are from .ml
I think I’m on here too much because I was kind of surprised, my first reaction was “of course! People like stamets, ladybutterfly, silence7, PugJesus, The_Picard_Maneuver, etc…”
But I shouldn’t really think of this as obvious, but more of a sign that I should be on here less lol
I got big letters for my account. 🤷♂️
^ this guy. You can see those letters from orbit.
I used to see you everywhere. Then I got the “Voyager for Lemmy” app. Now I rarely ever notice you.
Voyager doesn’t do custom username fonts or icons, so everyone’s username is just plaintext. You blend in with every other user in my feed, and I rarely look at usernames, so I tend to miss users that I haven’t specifically tagged myself.
Switch to Sync
Thunder does render display names by default, but offers the setting to disable it. I do disable it.
You were the first person I thought of, actually.
You were one of the first i though of
I really liked your neighbourhood in Athens.
