Although Lemmy’s userbase is quite large,it still is small enough that I do often see the same people in comment sections. It feels though, that I should recognise more names, because I can only remember around 5 individual ones.

  • fmstrat
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    05 months ago

    Depends on four factors (theory):

    • You have profile pictures on
    • Your App shows the emoji characters in display names (ugh (my reaction has no reflection on the quality of their posts, it just annoys me))
    • You reply to the same person more than a few times
    • You proactively read usernames as you read comments/posts

    The last one is key. I think most people skim right over them, which makes the first three important.

    • @glimse@lemmy.world
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      05 months ago

      Connect lets you disable custom display names otherwise that guy would be on my blocklist. I haven’t noticed him once since disabling it but goddamn did I find it annoying before that