This community usually discusses consumer rights, but nobody is discussing this initiative. Is it maybe cuz Lemmy's majority ain't American?
this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2025
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I keep seeing this posted, but what the hell is a pfp?
Pro file picture
Whatever happened to calling them avatars? First my PMs got turned into DMs, now this. I'm truly becoming old.
PM->DM was a mix of making it more obvious that those were NOT private in the slightest and to better align with marketing ("send a Direct Message to the celebrity you are stalking!")
I am not sure when "pfp" took over but I've noticed over the past 3 or 4 months a LOT of random requests for a DM on discord of people asking where I got my pfp... which is literally a screenshot from a cartoon in the 00s. So I assume this is related to selling avatars to people on the game social networks?
Language simply changes over time.
I believe 'avatar' was generally changed to match Xbox and others using the term to describe full body digital expressions of the user, like the Xbox 360 avatars. I grew up knowing it as profile picture, but now I've changed my social messenger of choice to XMPP I'm seeing it referred to as an avatar again
that's the term you use when searching on Google or Pinterest.
Pro-File Picture? I don't know, people abbreviate things in stupid ways.
profile picture