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I think a simple solution of letting user turn on and off the display name will be nice.
You shouldn’t need to disable display names just to combat the 0.01% of people with annoying names. NFKC normalization is a better solution.
Counterpoint, only “0.01%” of names use annoying font. If thats all it takes to be noticeable, perhaps a toggle is better, then?
No
Or just turn display names of for users with special characters
Today I learned Lemmy accounts can have a display name. I thought it was just their account name.
I never get to have a fancy font name.
Less jarring than emoji at least.
What about a couple little emoji that onomatopoeia themselves into my username?
I don’t know. How do you think I feel, Zipper Kangabell?
I saw this post way back in September last year (which was quickly removed), and have been seeing this guy’s custom name popping up everywhere since. It’s very annoying. I’m all for blocking custom characters in display names.
It’s a way to complicated suggestion
Instead do a sha256 of <display-name>@<domain>
So veryfancyfakeuser@lemmy.fake
becomes
🌈cb76aae36c😘@lemmy.fake
And just to f with people add some emojis before and after.
AKA the Discord approach
This is related another issue too, does lemmy do anything to deal with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack?
How is that applicable?
Not the original commenter, but it seems they’re asking if lemmy is doing anything about imposters. These are all different characters: “Greek Ο (039F), Latin O (004F), and Cyrillic О (041E)” so someone could look like they have an official username, when really it’s a different unicode character. Nothing to do with the actual IDN part, but moreso about the “homograph” part, or even more accurately, homoglyph
The problem (or not, depends on you) with Lemmy is that usernames aren’t that unique when anyone can just setup a new instance or join a smaller one and register that username.
Most probably don’t look at the instance what is looking at usernames.
Personally I couldn’t care less to follow anyone on here. Who is who really doesn’t matter. But maybe it does for someone.
I guess if someone were dumb enough to give money to a person on Lemmy just because they claimed to be Mr Beast or something. Otherwise I don’t really see the “attack” part.
@_________ac called out
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I edited the image to mask the name. Can you please delete this comment?
No, but I edited it.
Fair. They had posted (and then deleted) a bunch of comments to this post asking to have it taken down, which is why I edited the image. It made them very anxious.
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How about they do whatever characters or emojis they want but the size is limited to xx pixels?
That’s not quite as straightforward as you think. These are emojis, they ARE text, just like letters from various languages…etc are also text.
It would be a hell of a lot easier just to ban non-ascii characters than to start changing the font size based on each individual character. This would also be something that every single client would have to implement themselves which they definitely would not, the rendering performance implications would turn it into more work than you would think.
I would prefer to set the colours that I see, makes it easier to tell who is a commentor and who is OP
Not gonna lie I like them so far. Helps understanding there is a person with some flair to them on the other side of the cold text.
However, customization should be a thought twice when implementing. However much anyone should be able to customize and make their stuff different, there should be options for the others to turn their own viewing experience into a rigid framework.
Yeah, would really appreciate a feature to toggle these nicks. Hope LJ is back from his current break soon
I don’t mind them and I don’t understand what the outrage is about. I’ve been able to identify some of these individuals across threads because they tend to stand out and I find that very endearing from a community POV. I’d rather have some form of personalization rather than slapping everyone with a uniform.
I don’t think anyone is outraged. It’s just an annoyance. I’m happily scrolling and reading titles and then N O T I C E M E!. It’s a distraction.
A name alone is personalization enough.
These posts sound more than an annoyance.
A name alone is personalization enough.
I don’t think so. People literally pay for personalization and a customized experience. If it were enough, we wouldn’t be here asking to normalize usernames in the first place.
How about just adding it in as a rendering option on the client side, making it so that they keep their usernames, but you can see the normal letter versions?
That’s literally what I’m asking for with this post. 🤔
Ah, sorry, I didn’t see the community you posted this in.
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Well he’s not asking you to change it, he wants his client to translate it locally for him only.
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Because it’s a good example of why the feature would be useful. Otherwise half the people would have no idea what OP is talking about.
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They’ve used your literal public name from a public post you made as an innocent example for their feature request, you are being insanely weird about this and you’re only directing attention to yourself while otherwise no one would’ve cared now.
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It’s kind of the whole goal of using giant letters like you have in your display name isn’t it? I’m honestly failing to come up with another reason.
I wouldn’t say you’re being put on display, you’re just an example between the many there are.
So you’re saying that “they’re asking for it”?
Just … do as that person asked and don’t use them as an example.
No, that’s quite literally not what I said. I said what I wrote, don’t try and read in-between that.
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Incredibly unlucky to have picked you as a small example, I guess. I’d also like to inform you that deleted comments can still be very easily viewed by most apps by selecting different copy options, it’s a weird thing.
