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

  • TheCaconym [any]
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    1 year ago

    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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      1 year ago

      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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        1 year ago

        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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          1 year ago

          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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          1 year ago

          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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          1 year ago

          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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              1 year ago

              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.