There’s been a couple of minor dust-ups on mastodon about the conduct of so-called “big accounts” there that I do not care to comment on, but it has got me thinking — do we even have “big accounts” on the threadiverse (Lemmy/piefed/mbin)? I don’t think there’s any handle I’ve seen where I’ve been like “oh yeah, that person.” Am I just bad at remembering usernames, or does the community/thread style of discussion remove all continuity for a single account?

  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
    18·
    1 day ago

    Oh. We exist.

    You may need to be subbed to a relevant community (for me it’s anime girls) to repeatedly see a given user to the point that you start recognizing them. I certainly have users I recognize.

    You might know me for running the dailycomic bot that has continued the CnH posting after the original mod stopped doing it manually, or the [email protected] community.

    But I know for a fact most people who’d recognize my handle, consider me “the anime girl poster”. I use the same username in games, and have been asked “are you the MentalEdge from Lemmy” once, which was new.

    From my perspective there are also people who comment often enough that I remember them.

    There’s the guy that posts a daily collection of screenshots from games he is playing, along with commentary on how he likes the games.

    There’s a couple big names over on lemmyshitpost.

    Same goes for tenforward.

    There’s Blaze, who I know as a general background engine of activity and advocate for good on the fediverse.

    There’s a bunch more, but I’m not gonna bombard them with mentions.