Are there any "famous" Lemmy users?

@[email protected] keeps history alive and the Confederacy in check.

@[email protected] is our resident owl afficionado.

There are many others, of course, but I seem to notice these three a lot in my Subscribed feed.

@[email protected] and @[email protected] both post a shitpile of news articles.

My dear, sweet @[email protected] posts so many science memes it makes my head spin
@[email protected] has just completely become the account keeping historical memes and historical illustration communities going, which I very much appreciate.
I'm honored to be listed with those 2 posting machines!

It always means a lot you all take the time to read my posts.
- You'd get an upvote for the GGI alone from me
- You are very mich appreciated as well with your cute owl posts :) <3
Along with those already mentioned, my personal heroes are people who keep communities alive:

@[email protected] posts comics daily to [email protected] and others

@[email protected] keeps [email protected] going

@[email protected] posts regularly about [email protected]

@[email protected] has been killing it on [email protected]
- Thanks but lately you and other subscribers have been posting a lot too!
- @[email protected] Posts daily to [email protected]
  
  You and everyone else who keeps communities alive are all appreciated!
- Love you @[email protected], but I spazzed out recently after a full year of pressing too hard for a 'post per day,' and I feel like I dishonored everyone here when I melted down recently. (I'm super-embarrassed)
  
  So I appreciate the mention, but regardless of how I embarrassed the community, I can't aim for one scholarly post per day, anymore. I just can't. Sorry about that, matey.
  
  Now I do plan to keep on posting as the mood seeks me, but I just CAN'T keep the community popular like this, all on my own. Even just a little bit of help would go far.
  
  Ugh, sorry for all the bitching and moaning. :S
I love [email protected]

There are a few other animal communities too, like [email protected]
<3

DBZer0, aka Divide By Zer0. He runs an instance with the same name. He's one of the old mods on r/piracy and helped lead an exodus over to Lemmy

Also great contribution to make Lemmy a safer place
Awww, thanks. It stands for "Divided by Zer0" btw ;)
TIL what the "DB" stands for, I thought it was for "database" lol
- Yea, I did, too. I thought there was some kind of joke about not having a database.
DB0 is the goat

@[email protected] has been a constant presence who seemingly posts at all hours of the day, probably the biggest Lemmy "celebrity" that I can think of.

<3
- Also appears to be a genuinely witty, standup dude.
They post so much I thought it was a community for a while and not a singular person posting
- I just realized right now that it was a user and not a community lol
- It's not a whole community?

academy award nominee "Margot Robbie" of course!

I hear academy award nominated actress margot robbie is here sometimes.

@[email protected]

@[email protected]
- Damn she's been inactive recently
  
  No wonder I haven't been seeing her around
- Not real, isn't it?
Well, just as long as we don't end up stuck with george clooney.....the smug bastard.

I see a lot of posts from @[email protected].

They post good memes, insightful comments, moderates a few communities I think.

probably not a real squid though, I don't think they got internet in the ocean

probably not a real squid though

I am currently visiting some friends I've been talking to on a forum for years but have never met. We've all been really close despite that. It's sort of a three-day forum party and it's been amazing.

Why do I bring this up?

I needed a shirt to wear for the first day so I didn't have to keep telling people who I was and I found the perfect shirt. (Excuse the crease, I took the picture the day after.)

Edit: are the downvoters disillusioned by the revelation of my false endoskeleton?
- I just played a metroidvania called death's door, and in one section you go to a restaurant where the cook is a squid puppeting a dead guy as a disguise. Thought you'd be interested
  
  https://youtu.be/9_XektM-mAw?t=14m18s (starts at about 14:20 if the time stamp doesn't work)
- How are the clarinet lessons going these days?
I have seen their name a lot, and though I think I share similar opinions with them on a lot of things, I find they tend to be more condescending and insulting for my particular preference.
- he also has a habit of replying to people without fully reading what they've written, creating long chains where he blames everyone else for his failings. it's ugly.
- He also uses the fact that he is a mod to bully people. He just holds it over the conversation at times to force it to go the way he wants.
Checks community's modlist

I've seen them a lot as well, but personally in my interactions, I've found them to be abrasive, narrow minded, and eager to take things personally. Lowkey don't mind that, it's not the internet if everyone is some polite bland npc.

But add mod powers for many communities and...
- I've seen them goad people into arguments and then smugly mute them and tell them they need a timeout lmao
- and that right there is the problem. Lemmy is back to Reddit's power-mod problem.
- Same.
I dislike flying squid because of how they interacted on that one post with comic involving double standards on pictures of children

Denying people's trauma and right to not have those images be shown to others without permission is not a nice thing

No love for @[email protected] ? They're not always the best troll, but man are they prodigious.

Putting their comments aside, I think it's really impressive how they came up with the perfect four word combination to blue-screen my brain every time.
Perhaps it's just that their username is unforgettable, so you notice it when it appears. Definite Rimjob Steve territory.
not just a bad troll, but has some messed up takes on the world.

For example, he's against OHS. Good on Lemmy for knocking that Idiocy down to -185 or more, but still. No.
- What is ohs?
  
  *Quick Google
  
  Occupational Health and Safety?
One of the only names in this thread I recognize

I asked my mom and she didn't really understand what Lemmy is but she assured me that I am the coolest person on here.

An autographed headshot will run you $20

You do hits for $20 and even autograph the victims?
- I was talking about signed photos, but we can discuss other options
Why would I want a photograph of your mom?
- Why wouldn't you? She's awesome.
Either you‘re way less popular than you think of or a medical marvel you can still type after at least one headshot.

There are some infamous ones for the amount of misinformation they post.

It's funny to see you comment here because I was literally coming to this thread to mention that I see you in seemingly every comment chain and thus consider you "Lemmy-famous."
- "Lemmy infamous" even
Some even under this very post…
- Does SMCF post misinformation? I honestly don't know.
I really hope Lemmy eventually gets significant enough attention that Whang! does a video about stuff that happens here, so I can hear him say your screen name out loud.

@[email protected] obviously

Is that the actual actress? If so, how the fuck did she wind up here?
- It's obviously the real actress. Who else would it be? Do you think someone on the internet would just pick that name to use if it isn't theirs?
- The account doesn't really act like someone pretending to be an actor, and whoever runs it was mainly posting during the SAG strike when she would have had more free time. So I want to believe it's her, because she replied to one of my posts and that was pretty cool.
- Of course not, she probably never touched a computer in her life.

If you vote me down, I shall become more famous than you can possibly imagine.
No I am more famous than you will ever be.

Flying squid

but not in a good way.
- Until this thread, I didnt realize so many Lemmy users had an issue with Flying Squid. Perhaps its because I tend to agree with a lot of his takes, but I just find him abrasive at worst. Like...unafraid to not sugarcoat an uncomfortable truth.
  
  Dudes definitely everywhere though.
- I've never seen them be out of pocket, just everywhere.
Flying Asshole
- Very much you saying Pot meet kettle
No, because of how they interacted on this post

https://lemmy.world/comment/10906808

Their the second person I hate on lemmy, the other one being stamets because they repsonded to me in an abrasive, rude, toxic and above others attitude
- I really don't see a problem with how they interacted. And, as a step father, I agree that it's your job to embarrass your kids some as they grow.
  
  I think they were much more level headed and calm than I would have been had I been at odds with so many people.
  
  But hey, everyone is allowed their own opinions.
- I don't see the issue?
- Be careful pointing that out on forums they moderate or they'll ban you for "mod harassmenr."
  
  Power users and power mods are cancer.
- They're**
  
  Fuck.

Special shoutout to @[email protected] who's on point with the opossum memes.

@[email protected] is quite famous in the Lemmy Startrek Lore, but less active lately probably due to big real-life changes happening, I wish them well.

The big changes are mostly just that I work new hours which are weird for lemmy posting. I've been trying to find a way to get back into it more easily. I do miss posting so much :(

Can't say it's not weird as shit though to think that that I'm even slightly "famous"

And I do appreciate it <3 genuinely
- it's probably best not to force it. Early in the Reddit migration, frequent posting kept people coming back, but you don't want to turn it into "your" communities. Shifting to quality over quantity is never a bad move either :)
- No problem and glad to hear you're still around! You were there with the memes and shitposts when Lemmy needed it most, I think that deserves recognition. Keep taking things at a pace you feel comfortable with, your life comes first.
- Thank you for your work!
- Tens of thousands of people know who you are. At least your online persona. And generally think good things about you!
+1 for @[email protected], they are the primary poster in all of the niche subs I creep.

Shout out to [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected]
Hear hear. For better or for worse those opossum memes really resonate with me
I dislike stamets because they responded to me in a toxic, rude, abrasive and above others attitude when I disagreed with them on their stance that spirituality and religon (which are seperate things) should be banned in the future entirely, it was related to start trek discussion

I disagree with that because I beleive people should have freedom to practice their religous beleifs or spiritual beleifs as long as they are not harming others

The harming of others should definitely be dealt with if someone does decide to harm others based on their beleifs but many people practice spiritual or religous beleifs without harming others
- (Edit: Misclicked reply) the attitude part is pretty common for Lemmy users: passionate, with strong views enough to migrate away from the mainstream. You are free to dislike Stamets or anyone else. It's still important to understand that nobody's perfect, no need to have one's flaws be used to tank the good accomplishments they've done for the platform.

The user with an AI copyright notice on every one of their posts is one of my favorite "gimmicks".

Is it just one person? I tend to not read usernames. I just find that notice amusing as the only result it will have is that some ai-generated comments will one day start to have that notice in them as well.
- I've seen at least a couple different users with that, but I wouldn't be able to recall their usernames offhand.
  
  The notice really reminds me of the Facebook chain posts where people would post a declaration saying that facebook couldn't use your data/likeness if you share the post text.
  
  If ai companies are unabashed about scraping and training on copywrited material from litigious companies like the nyt, I really don't get how anyone convinces themselves that anything they append to their comments would stop a scraper.
Yes I've seen them too. Utterly pointless lmao
that's @onlinepersona i believe although I dunno what instance is their home. They seem nice

Ada from Lemmy Blahaj Zone is quite infamous for the bad takes and arbitrary bans

Satan's Maggoty Cum Fart always gets a laugh from me

Ada is a strange one yeah. I remember them because instead of just generally deciding they didn't want to federate with lemmynsfw, she accused the admins of lemmynsfw of allowing CSAM when that turned out to be from a confirmed adult model that just happened to have a smaller body, and when she found that out she doubled down. That's such a weird take from a supposedly pro LGBTQ+ lemmy admin, considering that accepting of people of all shapes and sizes is a core tenet of being LGBTQ+.
- One time I posted a meme on Blahaj in which someone named [email protected] was attacking a trans person. Ada sent me a message about it saying I was attacking a real trans person. There is no real trans person named Obvious_Troll. I made up that username for the meme. Ada defended a fictional transphobic troll, because they were from Hexbear.

In [email protected] @[email protected] is very present.

In the german meme community [email protected] @[email protected] , @[email protected] and @[email protected] are very well known.

Ayo

How many of yall read this entire thread and were disapointed or glad you didnt find your own name.

It might be egotistical but I was hoping I'd made a mark in Lemmy culture.
Not really because I'm not aiming to be famous on lemmy, that takes effort and I'd hate doing that

I'm just on lemmy to use it like any other social media
I did find my own name and am both disappointed and glad.

Well, not to brag, but today i sneezed so loud that a neighbour 2 houes down and across yelled "bless". So, yeah, kind of famous.

That would be 2√2 or √8 houses.
- What am I missing here?

Pretty sure me and another Lemmy were the first two men to meet here then fuck. Highly recommend.

Then what?!
- I think he said fuck
I congratulate you, lemming. Here's your medal:

I'm here. You're here. Let's you and me be the new celebrities.

Sorry, I couldn't vote for you. You double-space after periods!
- It's marginally easier to read, and it costs me nothing. I've been typing this way for forty years, and it takes me longer to try to single space after periods. Why should I change? I'm not asking anyone else to do it, but I'm not going to unlearn something that doesn't affect anyone else.
  
  So that's my thing. I'm the double space after periods guy. I'll also argue with you about State's Rights and the Civil War, the correct pronunciation of the word "gif," and why imperial units remain popular despite the "obvious" superiority of metric. I also have some inflammatory opinions about conservativism, but those aren't nearly as controversial as the other ones.
- As they should!
Have your people send my people an autograph.
Do either one of you go on long rambling on-topic stories, only to talk about the undertaker throwing mankind off the hell in a cell in nineteen ninety eight?
I'm ready for my transformation!

Oh, wait you said celebrities. Not cenobites. Nvm
Seems like a lot of effort.

That guy that has letters from blue squares.

kol-something? I think it's kolanaki but I never get it right. They're definitely eye-catching in the web UI, even if I don't see them all that often. I kinda get the feeling I misunderstand them a lot.
- KOLONOSKOPY
- https://yiffit.net/u/Kolanaki
That guy seems like he's everywhere.

I think their name was "SatansMaggotyCumFart" or something like that?

FlyingSquid(I don't know on which instance he is, but you see him quite often).

Careful interacting with FlyingSquid. I refused to be drawn into an argument with them and was banned from World News which they moderate.
- You were banned from World News because of transphobic bigotry, as you know.
- I've had good and bad interactions with them, so I just think "hey they are flawed (hopefully) human beings that have good days and bad days". Chances are if I treat them (or anyone) kindly, the interaction will be positive.
  
  My goal online is to try and be a wholesome user, although that doesn't always happen. I usually delete my comments when I don't like how I acted with someone else as I want to remind myself to take a kinder approach to Lemmy. There's enough toxicity online.
  
  I think "would Mr. Rodgers approve?"
FlyingSquid seems to have alot of accounts on different instances
He's on Lemmy world
Isn't FlyingSquid a she?
- I don't know.

Clearly me. I am a tiny little youtuber and streamer who wants this place to succeed, so I lurk, I post and don't have a presence on the big platforms.

So if I ever make it big, I can help drive users here. You just wait! It'll happen any day now!

The world is your stage
Imperor-Head here. I can't believe it's really you!
- Damn, the Impire truly has it's tendrils everywhere!

@[email protected] for this post: https://szmer.info/post/423722
@[email protected] for running [email protected]
@[email protected] for running [email protected]
@[email protected] for running [email protected]

P.S. Mizu's poop post is really nice study in how the content prevails in fediverse. The original post on lemmy.world throws an error, kbin.social that is linked in r/[email protected] no longer works, but I found a copy on szmer.info

Haha, the poop post! I remembered commenting in that thing, but it might have been from my kbin account before I hopped to .world
You need only glance at my main account, @[email protected], to see I do a bit more than that.

[email protected] is another community I thoroughly enjoy growing.

I've noticed @[email protected] contributes to the community a lot!

Blaze has been great for growing Lemmy communities through contribution to communities like

[email protected]
[email protected] and
[email protected]
I'll second Blaze - very enthusatic about making Lemmy great.
Thanks!
Oh yeah! They're kinda everywhere

That kolanak yiffit guy I see everywhere

SAME! I see them literally everywhere, it's insane.
- They stick out because of the use of emoji letters lol
He's our resident furry

I'm kind of a big deal.

I can’t believe you’re here honestly, wow

All the star trek guys

I'm not a huge Star Trek person, but it really is one of the best communities here with some of the best people.
- Start with Strange New Worlds. It's the best new Trek in 30 years. You can find it on the Bay or wherever you get your videos.
  
  If you aren't hooked by the end of season 1, yeah it's probably not for you.
Except me apparently, if you read the rest of this thread.
- Thank you for your sacrifice
- People have their reasons for disliking you and I agree with them because my experience with you matches what they are saying flyingsquid
  
  I came to dislike you because of the way you acted in this post
  
  https://lemmy.world/comment/10906808

I'm huge in japan

I'm hung in japan
- David Carradine?
✋😮🤚
Like Godzilla.
Are you also forever young?
- I'm not rod Stewart but I did sleep at a holiday-inn express last night.
- I want to be.
I got the style, but not the grace
I got the clothes, but not the face
I got the bread, but not the butter
I got the window, but not the shutter

But hey I'm big in Japan
But, have you met a Tiny Japanese Girl?
- kinda wish I hadn't

I'm always seeing TexasDrunk on here. But maybe it's just that Texas stands out to me since I'm from there.

There are definitely some that I see around a lot, eg. PugJesus or that guy with the emoji name that starts with a K

Kolanak?

Also, The Picard Maneuver
- Yup that's the one

@[email protected], @[email protected] and @[email protected] help a lot to keep [email protected] active

Flyingsquid, pugjesus, maven, the_picard_maneuver, fossilesque, satansmaggotycumfart, and jeffw just to name a few.

That one user who started that no pooping meme or whatever its called

I'm Burt Reynolds.

Username does not check out.
What up burtt, long time fan! Is it true what they say about Sally fields? Ya know?? That freaky thing??

Maybe its just me, but I see @[email protected] moon a lot. They post sovereign citizen stuff, which is what i see regularly, but they are also a pretty good poet.

I am actually not a poet, I just find good poetry. Thanks!
- My mistake.
- The poetry is fantastic! Thank you for posting it.
My first thought was also BonesOfTheMoon
- Aww thanks for thinking of me.

Saving this thread so i can update my blocklist!

I see @[email protected] constantly, and it trips me up every time because when I met my wife online twelve years ago, her username was MyOpinionIs. Not sure that they're famous, though..

I think it's the blue checkmark that always draws my eyes.

Famous enough. :)

~~I think me~~ all joking aside I think https://lemmy.world/u/The_Picard_Maneuver is the closest to one due to seeing him everywhere

Its me that guy in the thing

@[email protected]

https://lemmy.world/u/jeffw

Jeffw is locally famous. Posting content and commenting. (Sorry, can’t figure out how to grab the user name link on this app)

@[email protected]

Don't know their exact names...
Instant Noodles on feddit.org
Someone with blue emojis spelling and starting with a K (Kola or Kol or something)

@[email protected] has a blue name and posts a lot

@[email protected] were fairly prominent for a while with [email protected]

I am his distant cousin

I see @[email protected], @[email protected], and @[email protected] a lot

Is this what it's like when your ship comes in? Who's the worthless nobody now, dad!?

😞 I guess I’m not as clever as I thought

@[email protected] I think counts. A good friend who is famous for participating and fascinated with every activity I'll never do lol

Oh that's funny! I literally just interacted with them yesterday. Very amicable.

Not me.

The_Picard_Maneuver is the real MVP of Lemmy, a source of so much joy.

can't think of anyone

I'm infamous if that helps

I'm unfamous!

"Fart McCarthy" of course, you remember the "Ding Ding Dookie Shuffe" on Christmas Eve '73? Classic! Even my grandma knows about that one.

And she's a god damn idiot.

I suspect a lot of the prolific posters are just cross posting curated content from reddit (which is fine). I don't think Lemmy is big enough for famous people yet. Alternatively:

Lemmy has no famous people. Lemmy needs to famous people.

I might be famous when pigs fly.

Ah yes. The most American of questions.

- Have you considered that America bad?
wait till you hear about celebrity worship in other countries too

did you know there are kpop fans who think they're literally destined to marry their crush?
- I hear England has a family that's famous for just being alive...

I'm sure I'm famous because I'm allegedly a Russian troll and a Nazi sympathizer that promotes slavery in China because I eat chocolate sometimes.

Quite the character, huh?

There is a good amount on Lemmy that I have seen.

If you are active enough, you will start to see user names you recognize across major communities, as well as posts.

^ this guy posts vast amounts of bullshit, accruing a huge tally of downvotes.
Hey I recognize this one right here!
Idk why you're getting downvoted. Have an updog. Nothing you said is downvote worthy; banal, maybe, but then that's 97% of internet comments
- They’re getting downvoted bc they are a notorious heavy disinformation pusher.
- They also didn’t answer the (admittedly not directly stated but clearly implied) question of who these famous users are.
  Saying “yes, they exist” without further elaboration is superfluous.
- What's an updog?