I consider profile pictures as a way to be more visually appealing, and a way to be recognizable more easily.
Why don’t you have a profile picture?
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There are profile pictures?
Yep, do you see mine?
No.
I do. But its because I’m on the browser and i usually use an app on my phone. I added a picture. So this comment is to see if it works.
Yep it does!
Wait there’s profile pictures? I just see usernames in the comment threads in Lemmy and that seems fine to me
Wait, you guys are setting profile pics?
I simply don’t care enough.
I like not being particularly recognizable. Treat me like everyone else that you don’t know.
I work 100% remotely, and my day job doesn’t even have profile pics. When we meet, it’s a dozen cartoon images or memes as faces. No cams, no pics.
The side gig I’ve had for 20 years has never had a pic. These people wouldn’t recognize me if I walked in the office one day.
Why should I? We don’t see a value.
I never look at anyone else’s profile/picture. They aren’t shown anywhere obvious in Voyager app.
Because I’m not interested in having a profile picture and idk even what it would be
I like not seeing people’s pictures in discussions.
I feel like I get a diverse opinion from people of all age, race, and other background. And we are united on our common interests in the topic without an implicit bias.
It might have shortcomings, and my case is for not having your real picture in your profile.
Because it’s about the discussion and exchange of information & ideas, not about individuals.
You can have a profile picture?!?
I have been meaning to for over a year, Im just too
lazybusy to get around to it.I have one only because it’s the one I use everywhere.
I don’t see anyone else’s though, the app I use doesn’t show them mostly.
Many such cases of apps not showing profile pictures. 🙁
They’re shown on posts. So on this post I see your profile picture all teeny tiny next to the title. None of the comments do though.
On social media where it’s only anons from all around the internet, I put a silly picture like here.
But on social media where my friends or my family are, I won’t put my face because hell no, and I won’t put something silly either because it’s hard enough to look normal.
I rarely use thoses social media so I’m fine without a profile picture at all.
You can set profile pictures on Lemmy?
Eup, In your profile settings
As others have said, I use a client that doesn’t display them, so it never dawned on me. And in general, profile pics have never been a big deal for me. So if the app or site doesn’t make me do it as part of the account set up, my profile pic just stays as the default.
