I consider profile pictures as a way to be more visually appealing, and a way to be recognizable more easily.
Why don’t you have a profile picture?
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I’ve had my accounts banned so many times I don’t bother anymore. This account I’m on right now is living on borrowed time too lol
There are profile pictures?
Yep, do you see mine?
No.
I do. But its because I’m on the browser and i usually use an app on my phone. I added a picture. So this comment is to see if it works.
I use an app that doesn’t show profile pictures by default.
I apply a user tag to anyone I want to recognize.
I have one only because it’s the one I use everywhere.
I don’t see anyone else’s though, the app I use doesn’t show them mostly.
Many such cases of apps not showing profile pictures. 🙁
They’re shown on posts. So on this post I see your profile picture all teeny tiny next to the title. None of the comments do though.
You can set profile pictures on Lemmy?
Eup, In your profile settings
As others have said, I use a client that doesn’t display them, so it never dawned on me. And in general, profile pics have never been a big deal for me. So if the app or site doesn’t make me do it as part of the account set up, my profile pic just stays as the default.
Yes? What the hell 😔
You can have a profile picture?!?
I do have a profile picture, but I don’t think it’s crucial. Other link aggregators often don’t have profile pictures so if you’re used to those, you may not think to set one. In any case I’ve never thought anyone’s profile picture on here was particularly consequential to me.
Because they are pointless and shouldn’t exist.
I don’t want random pictures being loaded when I just want to read articles, posts, and comments. This isn’t Facebook or Myspace. I’m not building a profile for people to look at. I’m reading and commenting.
They put extra burden on servers, apps, and mods. Someone has to be able to remove them if someone starts setting offensive pics like porn.
I never look at anyone else’s profile/picture. They aren’t shown anywhere obvious in Voyager app.
Why bother? Wtf would I even use?
I like not being particularly recognizable. Treat me like everyone else that you don’t know.
Because I’m not interested in having a profile picture and idk even what it would be
This is a place to be part of a crowd, not really about being recognized. I’m not here to make personal friends, nor a following.
I’m here for news and discussion. This doesn’t really require recognizability between threads
I’m thirty to forty years old, I don’t need this shit.
We did just fine in IRC with no accounts just handles. Recognize me or don’t!
I don’t care enough to have one.
