Although Lemmy’s userbase is quite large,it still is small enough that I do often see the same people in comment sections. It feels though, that I should recognise more names, because I can only remember around 5 individual ones.

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    9 days ago

    Depends on four factors (theory):

    • You have profile pictures on
    • Your App shows the emoji characters in display names (ugh (my reaction has no reflection on the quality of their posts, it just annoys me))
    • You reply to the same person more than a few times
    • You proactively read usernames as you read comments/posts

    The last one is key. I think most people skim right over them, which makes the first three important.