Lemmy user names should only allow standard characters
Lemmy user names should only allow standard characters
To be clear, some really great community members have these names, but they're everywhere now. And with the right characters you can create some really annoying overlaps: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3790
Enough of them floating around now that I'll probably do a PR for my favorite client to filter them out.
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Those are "display names". Some Lemmy clients have a setting to use the actual usernames instead of display names.
This is why I don't understand people getting annoyed if you don't read their display name. No, I don't want to see your ascii art that can change any minute, I want to see the identifier that will always mark who you are.
Why? It's supposed to be anonymous. Why on earth would a site that discusses privacy issues daily want to force people to have individual identifiers for tracking purposes?
Some people put their pronouns in their display names. Why do you care so much about not seeing that kinda stuff?
Any idea how to do that don Lemmy?