Just saying. How're yall doing, by the way?

  • kristina [she/her]
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    11 个月前

    so far they seem to be chill, though i wish the cool users had pronouns on so i know not to activate kill mode on them hexbear-shining

    • TheCaconym [any]
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      11 个月前

      The lack of pronouns from other instances has been bothering me too

      I don't know if it's a federation/lemmy limitation, or users not picking one, or if other instances didn't enable a feature or something, mind you

      • kristina [she/her]
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        11 个月前

        afaik other instances you can change names, hexbear disables that and instead changes your name with the tag system. if they wanted they could just copy hexbears code over and itd append the pronouns to the username

        • TheCaconym [any]
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          11 个月前

          That also explains why I saw a user recently with a different internal name (in the URL) than their display name, thanks !

          • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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            11 个月前

            Changing accounts periodically is good opsec. (I know, do as I suggest, not as I do.)

          • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]
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            11 个月前

            I wish i could change mine after Zizek's relatively recent string of terrible takes, but in all fairness i should actually just nuke this account and start a new one, for opsec reasons.

          • silent_water [she/her]
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            11 个月前

            yeah, I wish they'd just append the pronouns to the display name so the main field could be edited.

              • silent_water [she/her]
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                11 个月前

                it's not trivial. it means storing the pronouns field in the database separately from the display name and then updating frontends. and there's issues with length limits that have to be sorted out. I'm also not sure if the lemmy devs would accept the PR as they seemed kinda sour on the idea of adding pronoun tags when it got suggested in an issue.

                      • silent_water [she/her]
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                        11 个月前

                        So somebody makes it, they send the change over using a pull-request, and the other side has the choice of accepting it declining it?

                        yes

                        Why wouldn’t they just trust our devs? They’re clearly competent.

                        it's not really about that. it's a process thing to make sure changes are well-thought through, do what they're purported to do, and don't have any knock-on effects that would be unexpected. the model is used in basically all forms of software development -- most projects use them even for core devs. people only push changes directly into the repo when there's an emergency and something needs to be fixed immediately.

      • silent_water [she/her]
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        11 个月前

        it hasn't federated yet but it should eventually

        edit: oh I clicked on your profile and it immediately resynced. we see it now.