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.

  • Kogasa
    429·
    10 months ago

    That does kind of defeat the purpose of display names.

      • Kogasa
        216·
        10 months ago

        You’re missing the point. There are people who want to solve this problem (certain problematic display names abusing nonstandard unicode) without ruining display names entirely as a feature. I don’t care if you want to see display names or not.

    • Empricorn@feddit.nl
      17·
      10 months ago

      Sucks to be them. I didn’t agree to see their vanity names that they can change on a whim.

      • Kogasa
        324·
        10 months ago

        I do not give a fuck if you want to see display names or not. I am all for giving you the ability to disable them. Most people like display names, and we already have display names, so I think it makes a lot more sense to offer a solution to the problem created by a small minority of abusive users that isn’t just “disable display names.”

        • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
          13·
          10 months ago

          Why the agressivity? We’re just voicing our opinions here and GP only asked for the option to do it. Please let’s not make this a new re**it.

          • Kogasa
            118·
            10 months ago

            Because I’m getting flooded with downvotes and inane replies that are aggressively misunderstanding me.

            • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
              7·
              10 months ago

              Just take a deep breath and maybe take a break from the Internet. No one knows who you are. No one’s personally coming after you. No one’s agressive.

      • Kogasa
        15·
        10 months ago

        Allowing people to better control how they’re identified. Not to write Zalgo spam on people’s screens.

        • seathru@lemm.ee
          4·
          10 months ago

          Fair enough, but I second the opinion it should be a base lemmy option to opt-in/out. Let those who want to see display names see them; and those who don’t just see the static username.

          • Kogasa
            25·
            10 months ago

            Yes. Fine. I’m just saying “option to disable the feature” is not an ideal solution when people are abusing a feature. That doesn’t mean I think you shouldn’t be able to disable it.