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.
You leave my display name alone.
What about me?
Hah, as I’ve said in other replies, your contributions greatly outweigh my annoyance. But it’s still annoying (to me) 😉
Luckily I can contribute to my client to add a feature to hide display names, so I’ll just do that.
What about me? I’m just a teddy bear
My god, 8000 comments? How long have you been here?
Since July 1st, 2023, according to his profile. That’s almost 41 comments a day!
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┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ)
Hmmm, that’s goofy looking.
(╯°□°)╯︵ ˙ƃuᴉʞool ʎɟooƃ s’ʇɐɥʇ 'ɯɯɯH
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What is a standard character? It’s not a simple question.
They’re probably talking about a-zA-Z0-9, maybe _.-
What about äöüß?
Ï døñ’t kńõ2w whåt ÿōû’rë tælkìng äbôüt.
They are probably yes, but the French might not agree since é isn’t included. Let alone the vast majority of the world who doesn’t use the latin alphabet.
Don’t forget 0, that’s valid as well.
Right of course, fixed.
Yes it is, Ascii
Well no, it’s obviously utf-8
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.
simply an option to display usernames instead of displaynames could mitigate that
Boooo, boring
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Lemmy users call for genocide!
- tomorrow’s headline
No, I think they mean something more like Unicode compatibility form.Not sure what OP means, but Unicode NFKC normalization solves this.So 🅱️ gets normalized to
B, but “real” characters are left intact across scripts.See NFKC and NFKD form here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_equivalence
Agreed, the animated ones are also annoying IMO. Generally I block those users.
TIL users could have animated usernames 😳 haven’t seen one myself yet
I mean the avatar.
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.
If you’re that desperate to stand out
Very interesting take IMO.
I however see it as no different to setting a profile picture, a forum signature, or attaching an image inside a comment. It’s there to be customized
If they get you annoyed to the extent that you’re blocking users… have you considered switching to a Lemmy client that doesn’t show display names?
People doing those things have also been annoying for a long time though
