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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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[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago (5 children)

FlyingSquid is the only one I recognize and I feel like he's lemmys GallowBoob from reddit.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That character is almost literally on every thread I read.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Very present throughout. My top answer.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Very accurate and disturbing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Unlike Gallowboob, Flying Squid posts interesting things I genuinely enjoy instead of generic gruel obviously calculated to farm upvotes from the mainstream. Flying Squid is also an interesting and fun participant in the comments and seems like a pretty cool person, while I seen to remember Gallowboob coming off like he'd be an insufferable jackass in real life.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I don't remember him being like that early on so if he is/was it probably influenced from user interactions and let's be honest, people could be pretty toxic. I agree though about Flying Squid, they seem pretty cool.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

GallowBoob was more bot like. Did he really chime in that much?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Early on he would, but you are right I always suspected the account was more of a marketing firm of several people and the guy was just the public face of the account.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think that's one of my earliest blocks. Lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Ah really? He’s nice and thoughtful.