Lemmy user names should only allow standard characters

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You leave my display name alone.

simply an option to display usernames instead of displaynames could mitigate that

Those are "display names". Some Lemmy clients have a setting to use the actual usernames instead of display names.

Agreed, the animated ones are also annoying IMO. Generally I block those users.

By standard, do you mean alphanumerics only? This would destroy the Asian userbase.

There are users I've blocked only due to having username like that. If you're that desperate to stand out I'll make sure it has the exact opposite effect.

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I usually see Kolanki everywhere but not in this thread. Coincidence? 👀

I call shenanigans. I don't get 2 positive votes for Anything I write! It's all fart jokes and spelling corrections.

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I don't see the issue. I don't mean I personally don't mind the names (which I don't), but even after reading your explanation I can't understand what the problem is.

Maybe I'm tired.

Yes I used to see lots when I used Jerboa, but not one since switching to Boost. It wasn't something that annoyed me at all, but I see your point, it's something that could be exploited I guess

For reference, a specific example of a username that could exist: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3790#issuecomment-1664468110

They just look like regular text on the Boost app.

I use Connect for Android and everyone's name is the same. Couldn't be happier with Connect, actually

What is a standard character? It's not a simple question.

Boooo, boring

Can you just block/filter them when you see them?

This is a sticky situation, I really think your best alternative is to just block the people who are using stuff that's obnoxious. Programming wise there is very few ways that you can limit this without also limiting out non Latin based languages/languages that don't use A-Z. That being said I don't do much with front end I'm curious if it's possible to make a container in the client itself that Unicode characters can't escape from because it seems your issue isn't necessarily the use of the special characters it's the trailing style characters that are bigger than the display box

I like them. I even recognize those specific examples. If it was plain text I don't know if I would.

What the fuck is a standard character? The world is too big for this kind of policing. I don't hang art on my wall, but I can't imagine wanting to BAN if I find it distracting if other people do it.

The words they write is in the language you want, but their identifier is distracting? I don't see the problem. Let Lemmy be fun. If you like plain font names, go by one. "Lemmy shouldn't allow... " arguments should have a lot more backing than what was expressed.

Edit: I will say that OP has convinced me that there is an in fact a problem with the implementation. Somehow in the very small post, there was no room to highlight the best example. There's a lot of scrolling to get the image posted in OP's comment

So is the unpopular opinion that there is a problem with that image? Because that kinda sounds like a popular opinion. Is the unpopular opinion that lemmy should only allow characters from a fixed set? This is where I think my mind would have to be changed. You have not convinced me this is the only solution.