Do people actually like all of the overdesigned clutter to the point where it makes them not want to switch sites?
To me, the stripped down clarity on Lemmy is a feature. I remember back in the day when people flocked to Facebook from MySpace, in large part because they were sick of eye gouging customized pages and just wanted a simple, consistent interface. The content, not the buttons to click on it are the draw right?
That’s an option on kbin.social. I’m not sure if it’s the same for all kbins, still not %100 on how well this works. It was actually on by default and it took me rooting around in the settings to find there were avatars at all
There’s an option for “show user avatar” and “show magazines icon” in kbin which will shows those images inline when viewing posts like this.
showing icons
I think the idea if showing your own avatar is a pretty decent change.