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

  • Nora (She/Her)@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5·
    7 days ago

    I recognize a decent number of people, lots of famous frequent posters have already been mentioned but I also tend to remember trolls and people with bad takes.

  • Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.netEnglish
    4·
    7 days ago

    The big ones I recognize:

    • SatansMaggottyCumFart
    • Stamets
    • The Picard Manuever
    • poVoq
    • PugJesus
    • fossilesque
    • Cowbee
    • ComradeSharkFucker
    • ThefuzzFurryComrade
    • lumpenproletariat
    • GodlessCommie
    • Bad
    • UniversalMonk

    There’s a few more that I can’t think of off the top of my head. It’s nice that the community is small enough to recognize people so often.

  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
    4·
    7 days ago

    I don’t really pay attention. I come here to quip. It’s like a mental purge for me.

  • cepelinas@sopuli.xyz
    2·
    6 days ago

    I mainly recognize PugJesus, SatansMagottyCumFart and like the other two or three lithuanians on here.

  • qaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    7 days ago

    I feel like I often recognize others, but I obviously can’t tell who I don’t recognize 🤷

  • Alloi@lemmy.world
    1·
    6 days ago

    I specifically use this platform to fly under the radar, if anyone remembers me. I apologize. Im usually on the toilet waxing bullshit till my leg goes numb.

  • Fondots@lemmy.world
    49·
    8 days 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
        171·
        8 days 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)

        • glimse@lemmy.world
          1·
          7 days 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

        • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
          22·
          8 days 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.

    • toynbee@piefed.socialEnglish
      4·
      7 days 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
      1·
      7 days 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
    34·
    8 days 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.

  • Today@lemmy.world
    331·
    8 days ago

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

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      43·
      8 days 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
      331·
      8 days 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
        17·
        8 days 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
      187·
      8 days 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.

      Edit to spill the tea:

      Hello Lemmy.world admin team, I am writing to complain about the conduct of the moderator FlyingSquid.

      On two occasions I have had negative interactions with FlyingSquid on the /world community, both times he has used, or threatened to use, his moderator powers against me, because of his personal disagreements with me.

      I am happy to refer you to both conversations:

      link 1

      In this conversation, we had a long conversation about laws and politics. Personally, I feel he acted in bad faith on several occasions throughout our conversation, in my opinion, he was trying to bait me into getting upset so he could righteously ban me.

      And your silly prediction is wrong. I am not going to ban you for this despite the incivility rule violation. I am just going to stop talking to you.

      But you have just earned yourself the eye of a moderator who will not tolerate your rule-breaking with anyone else. Including if I see any in your recent history.

      More recently, we had a conversation today:

      link 2

      Again, in this conversation, he was, in my opinion, highly rude, dismissive and arguing in bad faith. He even admitted as much. I said I wasn’t interested in talking with him, he continued to push me for an answer, and then said:

      You didn’t let me down, because I knew you didn’t actually have an answer

      I completely understand that sometimes people get heated or struggle to deal with arguments where they care about the topic, so I am totally willing to look past that. However, I am not willing to look past his abuse of power.

      What a bullshit cop-out. I have asked you multiple times what the next step is and you’re now claiming I’m not interested?

      That’s two lies you’ve told about me now. That is coming close to trolling. This is seemingly a pattern for FlyingSquid - goading people he disagrees with into becoming frustrated with his bad-faith arguments, then accusing them of “trolling” when the people he experiences push-back, and using that as an excuse to ban someone he disagrees with.

      I was writing a response to his post pointing out that he was arguing in bad faith when I accidentally submitted it half-way through, when he suspended me for “trolling”.

      I do not believe that he has the disposition to be a moderator if he gets so upset at a polite discussion that he feels compelled to use moderator powers to silence dissent. I go out of my way to be as polite, kind and compassionate as possible and to give people the benefit of the doubt, but I do not believe we should allow those in a position of trust or power to use that to settle their personal disputes. I know there has been some issues with that recently regarding the vegan community so I am hopeful that you will do the right thing and either remove his moderator powers or at the very least let him know that his abuse of powers is not tolerated.

      I would prefer not to make a community spectacle out of this, hence the email.

      Thanks and all the best,

      • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
        20·
        8 days 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
      7·
      8 days 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?