just made a new account and I noticed you don't get to pick pronouns until after your account is made

I feel like it would make wreckers mald when trying to sign up for an account, and I think would be good practice in general. Alternatively, seeing a [none/use name] on a fresh account is sometimes a good wrecker signal.

  • footfaults [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    I think it would require changes to the core user object and registration codein Lemmy, which the maintainers weren't interested in doing. I think right now pronouns are implemented as custom tags, which was the way that the maintainers wanted to do customization, in a way that was more to their liking. It's been a while since I looked at the PR though so I'm probably wrong.