Yes, a few.

Even if you see many, it doesn't seem odd to only remember 5 though. I was on Reddit for like 9 years and would only have recognized a handful of usernames.

Yes. Mostly people who I interacted with outside of Lemmy.

I think I'm glad to not be noticed. I tend to comment to either make a joke or express exasperation/self loathing. Being recognized for that would probably be pretty embarrassing.

Sorry for making you my therapist Lemmy lol

If you're a regular on any of the communities I mod, I remember your username. Any new username to me immediately stands out.

Yea, I see same people all the time, small world or small lemmy idk

Interstellar, I got buddies who died face-down in the muck so you and I could enjoy this family lemmy!

Yeah. I see a bunch of the same accounts, but that’s probably because they’re active in the same communities I am. I see a lot more accounts I don’t recognize though.

Nope I never pay attention to usernames and images.

No, but I miss the days of smaller forums with user recognition. The last time I really recognized a user that wasn't a mass repost bot was a user on the r/stalker (game) sub-reddit by the name of CeliceTheGreat. Every interaction and opinion we ever had were seemingly in solidarity with one another, and it was always a pleasure to encounter him on other subs occasionally. I doubt he was any more Russian than I am (American/Canadian), but I miss you, comrade, and think of you often.

Definitely. It helps that I tend to stick to the less mainstream lemmy communities (mostly the queer communities on blahaj.zone). It's to a point where it can be rare for me to enter a popular comment section without seeing at least 1 or 2 recognizable usernames.

To be honest, I kind of enjoy the smallness of the platform at times, it reminds me of what the old internet has always been described as to me (but with faster data transfer, and more features)

No, somehow the usernames are not very prominent and especially the avatars are so small that I practically don't see them.

Nope, not quite, or at least I can't remember.

I reckon not everyone carried over their username from the other place; I personally didn't.

Definitely. Also remember avatars a lot.

@Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone Yes, but I use microblogging site of the Fediverse pretty often, and recognize more names from there

(Software I'm using supports both Lemmy and Mastodon etc so I'm exposed to both)

Well see EVERYBODY knows The MASTA CHIEF

Just a few, mostly prominent people from the OpenStreetMap community that I recognize by their username/profile picture.

Sometimes I also tend to see my instance admin sometimes, but it's more rare.

Damn I need to post more.

Yeah a handful of people, but I’m terminally online when I’m between my terminally offline tasks

i haven;t paid attention to someones username unless they brought it up