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?
I don’t think we have any accounts for Big the Cat, no.
Wait. You guys look at posters’ names?
You don’t recognise Satan’s Maggoty Cum Fart?
I know of a @SantasMagicalComfort@piefed.world lmao
One of my favs
Not the hero we need, but the ons we deserve.
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.
Low Quality Facts! They post… Facts with a very low level of quality
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?
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.
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.
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.
You talking about c0002 or c002?
Or Blaze
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
FWIW I tend to block power users on whatever site I’m on. It feels like going to a party and having three people come and stand between you and the party. I also block a ton of meme and nonsense groups, that’s not why I come to lemmy.
I got big letters for my account. 🤷♂️
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.
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.
Earlier today someone told me “I’d like for you to know that in the league of insufferable people in this app, you are in the top one percent.” So maybe I count? I don’t think I comment all that much.
I’ve gotten that too
You’re averaging like 5 comments a day? Seems fine to me.
Yeah, I was a little baffled. I know the Fediverse is still relatively small, but still. I recommended the guy block me if he finds me so annoying. One of the nice things about the Fediverse’s setup compared to Reddit is that the user-blocking feature doesn’t play havoc with peoples’ ability to continue participating in threads.
Luckly i didn’t got mentioned by anyone, sometimes ago someone said to me “i see you around enough to trust that you don’t mean anything bad” and i was like “do i use internet that much? 🥹”
Well, there’s no following here, there are just people who create posts way too often in too many communities, so you see them all the time - like cm0002, I also see a lot of Deceptichum and LadyButterfly but not as much as cm0002
cm0002 is a a repost bot lol. if you’re upvoting their content you’re harming the fediverse.
Yes that is the crucial difference. Without followers determining your reach, every post earns it’s upvotes on an equal footing with the others, regardless of author.
It’s a much better system.
Follower-based networks like Mastodon and Twitter inevitably end up with a handful of people dominating the space because their posts get boosted which gets them more followers which gets them more boosts etc in a spiraling way. This attracts narcissists and drama queens.
Sometimes I feel like I spend too much time on this site, so I’m pretty glad to not see my name popping up in any of these comments, ha. Makes me feel less like a dingle with no life. (No offense intended to heavy posters, I’m just referring to how I feel about me. I wouldn’t ever think someone else who posted a lot was a dingle with no life, because a lot of people’s social lives happen online and that’s okay.)
I’m pretty glad to not see my name popping up in any of these comments, ha.
Same here. At one point, I tried to be known for providing a certain type of content here, to help fill out a then-quiet community. But I’m kind of glad no one really recognizes me until they see a post by me. I’m here daily, but I mostly lurk, so I don’t particularly want to wake up to hundreds of comments in my inbox every day.
And yes, I’m still trying to provide that content despite my apparent hiatus. I’m just dealing with seasonal depression (as well as all the national news drama going on in my home state 20+ minutes from my home), so it’s hard to get motivated to be creative lately.
I recognize your username, but don’t actually remember what type of stuff you comment lol
I can’t remember your username but i recognize your account, i see ya often
Lol, if anyone recognize me, it’s probably because I’m trauma-dumping on the internet again 🫠
I recognize your account and see you around a lot. I like your insightful posts, especially about Chinese language. I was just thinking about one of them earlier today, that country names in Chinese may predispose certain assumptions about the country like USA being written as “beautiful country” etc.
I actually enjoy many of your comments
what type of stuff you comment lol
Nothing of consequence!
lol I feel like I’ve seen you name before, but maybe that’s just because active members here tend to stand out a bit? Anyway keep on doing what you’re doing. I love this place and I’m glad there are others who do too
People with a unique profile pic stands out more, or unusual characters like the big bold blue KOLANAKI
