They can be very handy for context, or even fun. For example, I have my “Galaxy Note 20” flair on /r/Android so anyone seeing my comments can know I am speaking from a Samsung phone perspective without me having to state that each time. On /r/nba people have their preferred team set as flair so others can shittalk back to them based on what team they follow, which is a lot of the fun of /r/nba.

There are many more examples in the different subreddits I would frequent, but regardless, I would definitely like community-specific flair options on the Lemmy instances. For example, the option to have your preferred distro as a user flair on !linux@lemmy.ml

We used flairs on the Lockpicking sub as awards as people progressed through different levels of locksport. I’m dreading having to give thousands of those out again here if user flairs are a thing.

I think in some cases it can be an important contribution, say you are in programmers career website and people write advice, some of those are unemployed or students, other are senior developers or managers , it could be useful that they have some credentials.

Per-community flair is nice in particular contexts. Like in a community focused on a specific league, a flair to show what team you support. But in a politics community I think flair for the party you support would end up really biasing the conversation.

It’s nice to have. Not more, not less.

I can live without it. But if anyone is bored to death and badly need something to implement: please do it!