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I don't see the point. Even on my monster screen they're only 6mm² so if it's anything other than simple line art it's just a small meaningless square of digital noise.

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

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

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

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

Oh hey Bill, I didn’t know my fbi agent had a Lemmy account

why would I set a custom avatar?

When I first set up my account I could not find where to add an avatar (I didn't really look that hard) I figured I would get back to it later and only remembered about it from this post.

I haven't cared about stuff like that since I was 15

I can't remember if I even bothered setting one. My app doesn't use them. I don't find them particularly useful on forums anyways. I only like them on real time chat apps where I know I'll be interacting with the same folks over and over again.

Edit: I did set one up!

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

Anyone know if there's a way to see avatar's through Voyager?

Idk how to use anything here

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.

There, I added an avatar.

That's me under my Performance Designs Spectre 150, circa 1997 or 98... Can't remember as I've slept since then.

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.

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'm ugly and I don't like cartoon pfp

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.

I mostly browse while at work to kill time... I don't have access to the avatar I would use at work. Also I don't think I see people's avatars with the front end I use?

I don't know why others don't but I'll say why I do, which is that I noticed people were remembering my username whether I had an image or not, so why not have an image? And it was early days, still is, so I figured... may as well be the first static.