Do people generally pay much attention to usernames anyway? One of the things that attracted me to old-school forums, then reddit, and now the feddiverse is the decentralized anonymity. It’s all just voices, and they’re all treated as equal, though you can still look at their histories or profiles and get more context if you want. I like that it’s not front-facing. The ideas come first, and personality is secondary.
On Reddit, it depends on the subreddit. Some of them I don’t care about usernames at all, but on smaller or more specialty/niche subreddits there actually can be a “community” of people who learn about each other
Something I can’t seem to figure out is what determines the @instance.whatever to appear after the username. For example, I’m on lem.ee and you are on lemmy.ml, but I see you as theksepyro, not theksepyro@lemmy.ml
Edit: WAIT I’m dumb. Is it just display name? hahah.
That’s what OP is referring to. You could make thekseyro@lem.ee and comment here, you’d both end up showing up as the same person on anyone using an app that doesn’t show the instance in the username.
Do people generally pay much attention to usernames anyway? One of the things that attracted me to old-school forums, then reddit, and now the feddiverse is the decentralized anonymity. It’s all just voices, and they’re all treated as equal, though you can still look at their histories or profiles and get more context if you want. I like that it’s not front-facing. The ideas come first, and personality is secondary.
On Reddit, it depends on the subreddit. Some of them I don’t care about usernames at all, but on smaller or more specialty/niche subreddits there actually can be a “community” of people who learn about each other
I imagine it can be similar here
Something I can’t seem to figure out is what determines the @instance.whatever to appear after the username. For example, I’m on lem.ee and you are on lemmy.ml, but I see you as theksepyro, not theksepyro@lemmy.ml
Edit: WAIT I’m dumb. Is it just display name? hahah.
That’s what OP is referring to. You could make thekseyro@lem.ee and comment here, you’d both end up showing up as the same person on anyone using an app that doesn’t show the instance in the username.
Fair point.
Yeah, I don’t remember usernames. Everyone might as well be anon. I remember comments more than the username that posted it.
Usually not, but I saw a poppinKREAM on here and based on their post history, they’re not the same person as on Reddit.