We aren’t really a big instance. We don’t even make the top-20. Where we really hit above our weight though is our comment count.

We are medium in size, but we are super engaged.

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    1 year ago

    This is where the avatars come in. I don’t pay much attention to the usernames, either. But those little avatars stick in your mind and you start to remember people.

    Yes, everyone is still a stranger, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t community.

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      1 year ago

      I forgot about avatars, i use connect and they don’t show up unless i go into peoples profiles.

    • 𝚝𝚛𝚔
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      1 year ago

      Voyager (and Connect by the sounds) don’t display avatars or custom usernames so you lose that bit of customisation in at least some of the apps.

      I think I prefer it. Avatars are usually bad anime anyway. I think mines a ghost face lady.

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        1 year ago

        Huh. You and @Aussiemandeus have probably just answered why I keep defaulting back to Jerboa. I have most of the Lemmy clients installed, and cycle through them. I usually use Jerboa for aussie.zone - I thought that was because it was the first one I had. Now I think it’s for the avatar support.

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          Sync also has an option to enable avatars. I can’t use any client that doesn’t have avatars available. I’m too used to identifying people by their avatars… and now emojis and OP/admin tags.

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            Aaaaand Sync has become my default app.
            I’ll probably give that one money, because I trust they’ll actually incorporate mod tools at some point.