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Beehaw Support

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Support and meta community for Beehaw. Ask your questions about the community, technical issues, and other such things here.

A brief FAQ for lurkers and new users can be found here.

Our September 2024 financial update is here.

For a refresher on our philosophy, see also What is Beehaw?, The spirit of the rules, and Beehaw is a Community


This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.


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We hope this logo will look more friendly to people 💖

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The little mouse icon is defined by the instance frontend that's showing the comment, as a placeholder for users with "avatar: null". Functionally, it's intended for each instance/app to define how they want to render "avatar: null" user avatars (some apps, like Liftoff, just leave it blank, no mouse).

if you made your account on Beehaw and you didn’t set a profile picture, you get a cute little bee

I understand that would require setting a profile picture for people who didn't set one themselves, which, given the federated nature of Lemmy, would kind of go against the idea of each instance/app deciding what image they show for people who haven't set an avatar picture.

Ideally, I think there could be an "avatar" and a "default_avatar" option for the target instance/app to decide whether they wanted to display their own (to preserve interface consistency), or the one suggested by the user's home instance, but that isn't part of Lemmy (yet).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you for explaining how this works! It’s interesting ☺️