Edited the image to stop putting the person on blast.
Yeah, would really appreciate a feature to toggle these nicks. Hope LJ is back from his current break soon
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 <display-name>@<domain>
So veryfancyfakeuser@lemmy.fake
becomes
🌈cb76aae36c😘@lemmy.fake
And just to f with people add some emojis before and after.
AKA the Discord approach
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?
Or just turn display names of for users with special characters
@_________ac called out
Edited
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.
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?
Your post is denouncing me by putting me on public display, without my consent and without contacting me in advance. I request that you delete the picture and keep my name out of this.
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.
I am not in particular good mental health and being put on display like this freaks me the fuck out!
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.
Seriously, why do you hate it so much when people have some fun with usernames?
Well he’s not asking you to change it, he wants his client to translate it locally for him only.
The why take a picture of one of my posts and publicly denounce me? That would not have been necessary at all. A general, non personal feature request would have been sufficient …
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.
I was not asked and did not consent to be used as an example though.
I never get to have a fancy font name.
Less jarring than emoji at least.
@CrayonRosary@lemmy.world please remove that picture. I have mental health problems and the way you put me on public display as a bad example freaks me the fuck out!
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.
