Why is it so common for people here to not have a profile pic?

Because we have a name already and aren't looking to share any personal info.

You can put any pic you like. Doesn't have to include any personal info.
- I thought it had to be a picture of your fingerprint?
- I found it's slightly less intuitive to add a pfp on Lemmy as compared to reddit. On reddit it's literally on the front screen while in Lemmy you have to go into the settings.
  
  It isn't hard, but seeing that the average user here was previously a redditor, it's still enough of a difference
- But then I'd have to pick something that doesn't reveal anything about me, why should I make that effort?
- Yes, I actually am this 16 yr old anime girl.

I didn’t want one on Reddit and I don’t want one here. This is a forum not a social media to me, my only identity here is an anonymous name, I don’t want feel represented by a drawing, don’t want to be famous on here, and don’t want my image on here

OMG, it's local micro celebrity JJROKCZ! Can I have an autograph?
- Link your steam and I’ll sign it lol
Profile pics are dumb. I don't want you to recognize me, this is an anonymous form.

Interaction should be about what is being said, not who said it.

I disabled them from the settings. Unnecessary clutter, names are enough to understand who you're talking with

Most people from reddit were not using avatars. Sometimes people had one from the avatar maker.

And sometimes someone had a hexagon and got rightly dunked on.

Because who cares? It's the content that matters, not how the profile looks of the person who posted it.

I didn't have one on reddit. I don't see the need to have one here. As someone else already mentioned, I barely pay attention to usernames, let alone profile pics. I care about what you're saying. Not what you or your profile look like.

Oh, ok. Yeah I completely get it.

Though I do just sometimes have those weird feelings, like with how so many people just look the same aside from the name, that I'm not really talking with other people. Yeah I know that's very silly and unusual but it's just kind of a weird feeling I have, like I'm speaking to a mass conglomerate or a bot instead of a normal, living person. I guess I just got so used to people having their own, detailed profile that someone not having it feel strange and unnatural, if that makes sense.

... People have profile pictures?

No thank you! Genuinely, I'm here for content and to drop the occasional comment. I come from a time of irc and php. Customization was nice, but I'm not here for it these days.

I pay no attention to avatars, I barely pay any attention to usernames.

Usernames are enough.

I never use a profile pic, regardless of the fediverse or anywhere else.

When I joined reddit we didn't have no fancy schamncy pfps

Idk, as soon as my instance added them I got this cute one, it just helps differentiate between everyone and remember who's who

lazy

While I have a pfp I also have it so I don't see anyone's pfp unless ik on their profile, and at that point it doesn't matter. It just feels like clutter when I see It.

Don't care about it

I’m on kbin, and I haven’t been able to figure out how to set one, if it’s even possible at all.

I'm on Memmy and I can't find the setting anywhere. It's driving me crazy.

I tried to set a pfp but everytime i did it it was just a black square (maybe because i was using a png or smh)

Maybe you should try a different profile pic? Sometimes photos online can be wacky like that. It could also be in a bad format. I usually download photos and save them on my desktop. Usually this way it let's me set up profile pics.

Also, swag profile name. Terraria is the goat
- Alr ill try later when ill be on my pc.
  
  Terraria W game
image uploads on blahaj were a bit buggy lately. i think they're working fine right now so you may want to try again.
- It's cool that you've got pronouns in your username, does blahaj.zone have the functionality to add them like a user flair like we have on hexbear or did you have to manually enter it into the username thing?

Don’t want one, I suppose.

!lostlemmings@lemmy.world

I made one with AI

I added one because I like how it spices up the comment sections a bit.

I use voyager and it straight up doesn't display any avatars. Other apps might not either. But don't take this to mean that I'd like to switch, this is far from a deal breaker for me.

The old Reddit interface also didn't display avatars, either, even once Reddit introduced them.

I can have a profile pic?

yeah! you can change it in the account settings if you want to

it's not really that necessary though, who cares

Because failed to upload image

Not like I hate having a profile pic, but I haven't bothered so far.

I was reminded by you just now to set mine, I use the same one everywhere.

I didn't know what picture to use, so I didn't bother. My picture on other platforms is my face, but I'm not going to use that here.

I have one but I don't like it tbh. Pfps are hard to get right due to the curvature and smallness.

It seems most people don't care. I just happened to have one from discord/steam/twitch which is the only reason it's on here.

Our instance didn't have them until very recently and I appreciate them more than I thought I would.

Having an image to go with a name makes it easier for me to keep track of things at least.

I thought about it but I don't rly have an online brand that involves a pfp so I just did the bee emoji in my name as kind of a replacement

I prefer not judging or even recognizing people by appearance.

I think the mouse is cute.

Yeah, that's fair.

Seems pointless plus Voyager doesn’t render them (nor does Mlem)

I didnt even know uou could

Ive never clicked into my profile

@WizBizX05

Posting from Kbin to let you know that usersripts are a thing.

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/470285-kbin-kibby-avatars

Go find you one that does the same fr lemmy ... or make your own

Ain't the fediverse great?

You can have a profile picture?

Yeah! I think you can do it by going into settings for your profile.