The threadiverse is small (compared to other major platforms) and I often see usernames that I recognize. How well do we notice each other around here?

I’ll start… my name’s “MrShankles” and I do be commenting/posting from time to time

  • Fondots@lemmy.world
    321·
    4 months ago

    I generally don’t recognize usernames and don’t look at them too much

    There’s the guy who uses thorns (who I have tagged as Nigel þornberry)

    There’s maybe a half-dozen frequent posters who I’m genuinely not sure if they’re masterful trolls, some kind of AI training bots, or just really need to go touch grass (preferably on their way to a therapist’s office.)

    There’s one dude whose username just happened to stick out to me after having a random conversation or two with him and seeing him being a generally pretty decent dude around Lemmy, I tagged him “this guy seems cool” at some point, and at some point it occurred to me that he might appreciate knowing that, so I shot him a message, and sure enough he did. I now consider him to be a pretty good friend, which is a new experience for me, I’ve never really been one to have online friends, I (somehow) do pretty well at making friends in meatspace and have never really felt a need to seek out an online friendship.

    There’s a handful of people who have said some incredibly dumb shit that I’ve tagged (for example one dude who I tagged “Tankie, down vote and ignore” although the last few times I’ve seen him pop up it seems like he may have mellowed out a bit, so good for him)

      • Fondots@lemmy.world
        131·
        4 months ago

        þat is indeed þe guy

        I also love how bent-out-of-shape people get over the thorns.

        I haven’t stalked his profile, but I feel like every time I’ve seen him come up he’s also seemed like a pretty cool and reasonable dude (I suppose it’s possible he’s off being a dick in the parts of Lemmy I don’t frequent, but I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt)

        • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
          16·
          4 months ago

          I have snarked him about it, myself. I have no objection to overtly affected personal expression (no hypocrite I). It’s just that reading a thorn unexpectedly feels like stubbing my toe, but in my brain.

        • glimse@lemmy.world
          1·
          4 months ago

          It’s harmless but it’s deliberately antisocial which rubs people the wrong way. They’re going out of their way to make their comments harder to reader.

          I’ve never had a bad interaction with them but I do think it’s kind of obnoxious attention-seeking behavior

    • toynbee@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      I’ve the thorn guy tagged as “uses thorns” and am now shamed about my lack of creativity.

      I had someone else tagged as “second guy to use thorns” but they’re a lot less consistent about it.

    • aivoton@sopuli.xyz
      01·
      4 months ago

      Ah Nigel þornberry. I appreciate the dedication to thorns, but ended up writing a script which replaces thorns in their texts because they stand out too much.

  • bizarroland@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    4 months ago

    I recognize kolanki (I doubt I’m spelling it correctly, but the person with the large blue name), pugjesus, the picard maneuver, violet08, that fucking cm0002 with the 5,000 alt accounts, and that’s about it.

  • YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
    181·
    4 months ago

    I could recognise a violet or PugJesus post without nametags! I enjoy both posters’ content although violet’s is a bit concerning and less educational, lol. Oh, and the guy who only posts anti-Western narratives memes, he always gets downvoted but he keeps at it like Marx’s strongest soldier 😅. There was also this maniac called Satan’sSomethingSomething I just had to block on two different accounts. Finally, there are several posters I have personally tagged cause I regularly see eye to eye with them, or at least I consider reasonable, prosocial and capable of having a normal conversation (flaxvert, Maeve, VikingHippie, among others). 👍

  • Today@lemmy.world
    171·
    4 months ago

    What happened to flying squid? They had some health problems and then talked about moving and then disappeared.

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      26·
      4 months ago

      I think this place wasn’t too healthy for them mentally, and I’m fairly certain after moving they just bowed out of coming back and focused on rebuilding their life in a new country, or at least I hope they did. Lemmy also skews heavily US American (less so than reddit but still largely) and so maybe they just wanted to disconnect from things here in the USA. If I was in a new place I think I’d spend more time trying to get my bearings locally than reading endless news about the place I just left.

    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
      232·
      4 months ago

      If you check in lemvotes you can see some activity from time to time, so I don’t think they are dead. It could be a federation issue but they at least appear to have logged in and had some vote activities in December.

      Regardless they did not have a healthy relationship with Lemmy. They were averaging something on the order of 15 comments, per hour, per day. That’s a comment every 4 minutes, all day, every day, for years.

      Idk. We should still probably build something to remember them by. Or to piss on, depending on how you viewed them. They were very political and were doing a lot of “pre blaming” for the, at the time, election which hadn’t happened yet. I think it may have broken them.

      • Today@lemmy.world
        10·
        4 months ago

        They spent a lot of time traveling and waiting for medical tests and results with their mom. I attributed the activity to the stress and excess time on their hands.

    • bearboiblake [he/him]@pawb.socialEnglish
      124·
      4 months ago

      Flying Squid was an auto-block for me, as soon as I made my account. He always used to ban me because he couldn’t win arguments with me in the comments.

      • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
        15·
        4 months ago

        Yeah, squid did deep and lasting damage to the fediverse with how they used bans to editorialize communities and those scars remain implicit today.

        At the same time they were a prolific and dedicated poster and that’s huge in a small community like ours. I didn’t like them, at all, and I think they had some deep problems around politics, identity, and some very weird narcissistic tendencies and victims complex. But I think they were also an important member of the community, if one who shouldn’t have played the role of moderator.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      6·
      4 months ago

      @flyingsquid@lemmy.world

      Last I saw, moved to the UK, was looking at getting a job there, and I assume stopped using the Threadiverse to dedicate more time to real life. Doesn’t look like he’s been commenting in a year:

      https://lemmy.world/post/25764717/15184325

      I told a member of an LGBT organization in York, UK that I would be happy for any help I can get regarding finding me a job above the UK family visa income threshold so my gay daughter can stay here longer than six months after he offered to look over my CV and give me pointers… for the glory of the empire?

  • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
    15·
    4 months ago

    I tag folks based off interactions, so after a couple years on here there’s a lot of names I recognize. Most of them are regular posters or admins (Pugjesus, Stametz, Violet08, Mrdown, Picard Manuver, Geneva Convenience, ada, db0, etc. who don’t need to be bothered with tags) or people who I have a special friendship with like @AntiBullyRanger (I really hope you’re doin’ okay) or my legit bro @toynbee@piefed.social

    Then theres various regular commentators on my NSFW posts like @StrangeBedfellow@lemmynsfw.com and @Keepthoseeyeslockedonmine@kinkycats.org who I appreciate a ton!

    (Personally, I was once asked out of the blue by @WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today to give my opinion in a discussion about battery tech. I think at the end this will probably be where I consider my life to have peaked.)

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      7·
      4 months ago

      Fully-qualified usernames:

      • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
        4·
        4 months ago

        RuhRoh I just did those too lol. Pings for everyone!

        Also Toy if u are responsible for the tiles and have been holding out I will be so mad

        • toynbee@piefed.socialEnglish
          7·
          4 months ago

          Nah, but a few years after I chose this username I was walking around Philadelphia and randomly saw one in the street. Basically no one who’s part of my offline life uses that name so it was weird to encounter unexpectedly.

          That the name is referencing the tiles is usually people’s first guess, but I chose this long before I’d heard of them. When the 2001 X-Men movie came out I was looking for a new username. In the movie they just show the character Toad in his villainous role, but in the novelization they cover more of his life, including his secret identity of Mortimer Toynbee. I liked it and adopted it. It’s almost never taken anywhere, either, which is nice.

          I didn’t expect to show up in this thread at all, let alone multiple times. It’s nice to know I’ve made an impression!

            • toynbee@piefed.socialEnglish
              1·
              4 months ago

              Fascinating - I believe I’ve heard of the story, but never read it or any summaries of it.

              Based on the referenced historian, perhaps I am that traveler, as this was many years before I was born.


              But it cannot be, for I would never voluntarily allow it to be capitalized …

        • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
          0·
          4 months ago

          I guess it’s like a pat on the head for being considered notable, so probably as long as there aren’t too many, they’ll be tolerant. :-) Probably.

          • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
            31·
            4 months ago

            Well at least one person on that list thinks I’m an open nazi so… Probably I should have rethiught the tags. But ah well I’m high lets go.

              • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
                01·
                4 months ago

                I don’t want to overly directly call someone out/incite brigading/etc. but I probably should have been more clear given I do tend to irk people. Hilariously though I’m not talking about the person who downvoted me (sorry @mrdown@lemmy.dbzer0.com, I completely forgot we got into it recently, I did not mean you)

                • mrdown@lemmy.dbzer0.comBanned from community
                  1·
                  4 months ago

                  I don’t recall calling you an open nazi, if I did sorry about that. I said that you defend instances that allow zionist propaganda to spread and I stand with my conviction

      • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
        3·
        4 months ago

        Lol thank you, it for sure hasn’t made me the most popular person but at the very least it’s not boring.

        I can’t believe I didn’t get you on the list. You’re great! I can’t remember exactly why I tagged you as “lesbOG” but it’s pretty funny. Or at least, I think it’s funny. And really, what else could possibly matter?

        • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
          2·
          4 months ago

          Yeahhhhh people on here sometimes behave in ways I’m going to be charitable and describe as contentious or particularly emotionally committed. Like all the internet as a whole has had that problem since I was a kid browsing forums, but it’s certainly sometimes a bit much here.

          And I absolutely love that tag lol

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
        2·
        4 months ago

        Actually there is one user I appreciate seeing around that I didn’t see mentioned anywhere here. Toomanypancakes is delightful

  • Monster96@lemmy.world
    15·
    4 months ago

    I’ve been here for 2 years and I only recognize violet08 and the_Picard_maneuver. Oh and Nicole, the girl with glasses who wanted me

    • FosterMolasses@leminal.spaceEnglish
      4·
      4 months ago

      I recognize you! Because of the lots of emojis and I always like your comments lol

      There’s also a dude/lady around here that has a Taiwan flag in their name that always has really thought-provoking comments (even though they’re sometimes received as controversial takes that get downvoted from time to time). I always take the time to read their stuff.

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      4 months ago

      I’m the exact opposite. My client doesn’t have avatars and I gloss over emojis but I remember most folks who are furry or furry-adjacent, especially you because my client tags upvote counts and you’re at like +165.

    • Hegar@fedia.io
      2·
      4 months ago

      That whole bit is SO GOOD. Everything from bang the rocks together, worst dressed sentient being, best bang since the big one, culminating in Zaphod’s jist zis guy, you know? 😂

      It’s right up there with the ‘space, it says, is big’ and might even be better than the bit about the marketing division of the sirius cybernetics corporation.

  • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works
    11·
    4 months ago

    Oh man, lots. Ada, Kolanki, WorldsDumbestMan, SatansMaggottyCumFart, Neidu, LadyButterfly, CaptainLezbian, CptAggravated, that one guy with the Chinese symbols whose mom is a piece of work, Stamets when he’s posting, Sunshine, Blaze, DistantSounds, Sodalite - the list goes on and on.

    I may spend too much time here, lol.

      • 「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」(old account, migrated to Piefed)@sh.itjust.works
        6·
        4 months ago

        xD

        Since I got summoned by a @ , gonna infodump cuz why not lol:

        Funny enough now that my mom went to China for a 1-month visit, and now it’s like 1 week in and I feel so sad about her absense from home…

        The house feels so much more depressing… :/

        I mean I guess this is a sort of “trial run” of what her eventual death would feel like…

        Like… now I can call her… cuz now its just separated by an ocean, in this era, we have instantaneous communications…

        someday it’ll be separated by a barrier between the mortal realm and… whatever world beyond… the afterlife… spirit realm… or whatever…

        I guess this is what my mom meant when she said she wanted to get married give birth to children… this same emptiness that I’m feeling…

        I might never find love in life :(

        Funny enough my older brother is also in China right now because mom pressured him to do marriage 🤣

        (My parents are arranged marriage btw)

        • c0wboy dani@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          3·
          4 months ago

          oof, that’s a bad hit buddy. love is one of those things where the more intention you put into looking for it the harder it is to find, other than arranged marriage. honestly if you’re that worried about it though, have you considered going that route?

          also crazy you’re missing your mom that bad despite her abuse but I definitely get it. i was living with my dad for a while and he was moving out and I was staying and I couldn’t fucking wait for him to be gone up until the moment he was leaving I started crying really bad… did not understand those emotions at all but I often don’t.

          hang in there ❤️

        • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.todayEnglish
          2·
          4 months ago

          Oh remember you too, but idk what to do about your issues :/

          I have minimum good advice besides patience is a virtue.

      • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        4 months ago

        Yep, that’d be them! Always forget your display name and user id can be different (know there’s someone who uses this to hilarious [to giant nerds like me] effect by having it be [x]@threads.com or something)

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
      3·
      4 months ago

      Oh hey I’m being recognized. I definitely spend too much time here. Also my teachers may have been right when I was growing up, I really don’t know how to shut up.

  • Iconoclast@feddit.uk
    11·
    4 months ago

    When I start recognizing a username it’s usually because that person is about to get blocked. Applies to quite many users mentioned here too.

    I think the small size of the platform is a bit of an issue in this case. The only way to not get “famous” here is by constantly having to make new accounts.

    • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
      5·
      4 months ago

      I was thinking the same thing.

      The only usernames I recognise are the people I find insufferable.

      I used to think that blocking that type of person led to being in an echochamber. More recently I’ve decided that echochamber or not - my participation here is a lot more enjoyable without them.

      The thing is, if a user only ever comments “bUt ShE sUpPoRtEd GEnOcIde”, I’ve kind of received the message already so I can hang up the phone?

    • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      I happen to recognize your username. Not for any particular reason, and you’re on +6 in my tracking, so I guess that’s a good thing

  • Courtney (she/her/they) @lemmy.blahaj.zone
    9·
    4 months ago

    I thought I posted too much on my alt on another instance.

    Glad I don’t see the username here, cause at least that means I wasn’t super annoying lmao

    I think everyone here has already posted all the names I usually see.

    There’s also stamets, though I haven’t seen them active in places I visit in awhile. Also a few users with custom names like Admiral Patrick or Riker Maneuver.