Edited the image to stop putting the person on blast.
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
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?
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?
@_________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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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 @
So veryfancyfakeuser@lemmy.fake
becomes
🌈cb76aae36c😘@lemmy.fake
And just to f with people add some emojis before and after.
AKA the Discord approach
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
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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.
