My reader doesn't even show avatars

I hid them to keep the comment section clean looking

You are probably a dude who spends money on skins and battlepasses.

Most clients dont show them

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

Because I don't care about it and it makes no difference. They only show in your profile and I don't look at my profile. The only people that do look at your profile are the people going there to try and find something to use against you.

Tbh I keep meaning to add one but I'm also a wicked procrastinator

Lemmy has avatars?

I disable avatar display on all my clients. Reddit and it's siblings like Lemmy have historically been less person-focused than other websites, and many of us like to keep it that way. While it can be neat to recognise people, I only need their user handle to do so and I only check if necessary. It's nice to take a comment at it's value without regard for who said it. Reddit's push towards personifying their users is part of why I left.

You see my user name - that's all you need. You want more info? I've got a comment history you can see too. Why do I need some visual component that I can change when I've got an unchanging name until I decide to abandon this account and get a new one.

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.

Neither the apps I've used or the web-end I use on my PC seems to make use of avatars at all.

I'd set one if there was a point, but there isn't.

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

I'm ugly and I don't like cartoon pfp

I do not see the importance of an avatar.

In voyager your can’t see avatars. A lot of people use voyager.

I don't see them on the third party app i use

Can't be arsed.

I'm not sure how to, and it's not something I care about enough to figure out how. I generally think of posting here as more shouting into the void, so I don't care very much to personalize my account.

I use Sync. I may be missing out on the perfectly simple UI that was developed to do this.

I would first need a personality to express.

because it doesn't matter at all

On Voyager I can't even see avatars or custom usernames

If I care enough about another user to note them across time and communities, I give them a tag.

In the other direction, I don't expect anyone to recall my username from one thread to another, to build any sense of my broader personhood greater than one interaction provides.

An avatar just seems unnecessary. I'm also on an app that only displays them if I go out of my way to see them.

They don’t show on voyager so I don’t think about it

We can set avatars for profiles? I don't even see avatars.

There are avatars?

Lemmy is a place I prefer to be as anonymous as I can while still participating so I don’t set one for myself and I use voyager the vast majority of the time so I don’t see anyone else’s. I personally don’t find profile pictures/avatars add anything to the experience for me.

One of the harsh lessons in software is learning that users sometimes have different wants and expectations than the developer. Gold-plating is a constant temptation, and it usually leads to frustration and resentment.

At the end of the day, if 60-70% of people don't care, either do it for the 30-40%, or do it for your own enjoyment, or put your efforts elsewhere. In any case, don't fall into a pit of resentment just because lots of users are approaching a platform differently than you.

There are avatars?

I don't see avatars in my app and I don't really care to. Never had them in early reddit and that's what I'm trying to replicate.