To be clear, some really great community members have these names, but they’re everywhere now. And with the right characters you can create some really annoying overlaps: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3790

Enough of them floating around now that I’ll probably do a PR for my favorite client to filter them out.

    • Kogasa@programming.dev
      15·
      10 months ago

      Allowing people to better control how they’re identified. Not to write Zalgo spam on people’s screens.

      • seathru@lemm.ee
        4·
        10 months ago

        Fair enough, but I second the opinion it should be a base lemmy option to opt-in/out. Let those who want to see display names see them; and those who don’t just see the static username.

        • Kogasa@programming.dev
          25·
          10 months ago

          Yes. Fine. I’m just saying “option to disable the feature” is not an ideal solution when people are abusing a feature. That doesn’t mean I think you shouldn’t be able to disable it.