All across Lemmy, I’ve noticed that users who don’t set profile pictures have a cute little mouse picture. I’m wondering if we could do something similar, where if you made your account on Beehaw and you didn’t set a profile picture, you get a cute little bee. Perhaps the bee that was just removed.

On iOS, the maintenance page has some black text completely swallowed up by the very dark brown tree, so I’m definitely up for that being replaced.

[–] jarfil 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The little mouse icon is defined by the instance frontend that's showing the comment, as a placeholder for users with "avatar: null". Functionally, it's intended for each instance/app to define how they want to render "avatar: null" user avatars (some apps, like Liftoff, just leave it blank, no mouse).

if you made your account on Beehaw and you didn’t set a profile picture, you get a cute little bee

I understand that would require setting a profile picture for people who didn't set one themselves, which, given the federated nature of Lemmy, would kind of go against the idea of each instance/app deciding what image they show for people who haven't set an avatar picture.

Ideally, I think there could be an "avatar" and a "default_avatar" option for the target instance/app to decide whether they wanted to display their own (to preserve interface consistency), or the one suggested by the user's home instance, but that isn't part of Lemmy (yet).

[–] Evergreen5970 6 points 1 year ago

Thank you for explaining how this works! It’s interesting ☺️