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.

  • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 months ago

    This reminds me of a situation previously where a user’s pronoun wasn’t visible to another user because their client did not show display names

    A solution for this that doesn’t alienate usernames with pronouns and non-latin languages will be tricky IMO, to be honest I’d just leave it as-is since the fancy display names I’ve seen so far aren’t excessive or abusing unicode modifiers.

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      11 months ago

      Just because people use display names for that doesn’t mean display names are a good place to indicate pronouns, and it especially doesn’t mean that having a client use usernames is alienating anyone who currently puts non-name data in a name field.

      I’d much rather there be a dedicated field where it can be treated with the importance it deserves and not just lumped in with other miscellany as a kludge.