In comment sections or in community pages, it’s mostly an ocean of default avatars.

As a UI developer, that’s always been a gripe because I put a lot of effort into making them look good and scale properly, etc. When I see 60-70% or more accounts sporting the default avatar, it makes me wonder why I even bother.

So, since this bugs me so much, figured I’d just ask.

Lemm.ee users I can understand because of the waiting period for uploads, but AFAIK, most instances don’t have that restriction. Even then, there are plenty of .ee accounts that never bother to go back and set one.

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    8 days ago

    Almost every app for Lemmy I have tried does not even have them visible by default and require you to manually turn them on. If their only experience is using an app, they might not even know you can have an avatar.

    • @P1nkman@lemmy.world
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      88 days ago

      What? I use voyager, and had no idea. Not that I want to turn it on, I’m just surprised it’s an option (haven’t checked though).

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        8 days ago

        It does explain why nobody has called out my avatar being AI generated when I talk shit about how shitty AI is (I generated it back when this shit was new and didn’t know how crap it actually was yet).

        • @AstralPath@lemmy.ca
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          38 days ago

          I will now judge you harshly for your transgression. Simply unforgivable. Smh

          Wait, your profile says you’ve only been around for 8 months. I swear I’ve been seeing you around for at least a couple years now…

        • @nagaram@startrek.website
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          27 days ago

          My avatar is also partially AI generated. I GIMPed the Zizek face from one of his movie posters though.

          I’m used to people calling me out for the Zizek part and that hasn’t happened on Lemmy ever lol.

          • I don’t remember what I used for mine, but I remember the prompt was just “a husky dog anthro but the fur that is normally black is green” it gave me 50 different things and this one was the only decent looking image in the whole batch.