Maybe considered in https://www.w3.org/2025/03/26-mse-text-tracks-minutes.html?

Maybe someone in EU could adopt me…

No alt text tho

Yep, having a shitty memory makes me write better code lol

It should be purple, vs blur. Maybe I could tweak it to be more obvious though!

Hey thanks ☺️

You might have missed it, but I mentioned there will probably be an option added in the future to turn on display names (off by default).

As for other Lemmy clients, I always encourage people to look around and find what works best for you! There are a lot of great apps and what is “best” depends on the person using it.

Oh, I see. Voyager doesn’t show that because display names are confusing for mentions, can be used to impersonate, and distracting. It might be an option to enable in the future, off by default.

Edit:

Claim

To clarify how I really feel, here’s my hot take: display_name is a really awful feature and should be removed from Lemmy.

Why?

They are dangerous by default because the very concept implies that clients should render display_name instead of the username, if it exists. Which is unwise: Apps have to choose between replacing (bad for impersonation/UX/distraction reasons) and showing both (which just looks duplicative most of the time).

What makes this feature even more frustrating is that people are now using display names for their username + flairs of actually important things, like gender identities. (for example, display_name="Alex (he/his)")

It’s a damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation for Lemmy clients. Some people are using display_name for important info like gender identities, and yet display_name is so incredibly easy to impersonate people and otherwise abuse.

Solution?

What is the solution? I think Lemmy should ditch display_name and replace with flair (or something like this). The general idea is that flair is NOT a replacement for your username, but rather it will be displayed alongside it.

Maybe even make flair per-community like Reddit. I think that was a much better design than what Lemmy currently has.

What do you mean?

The labeling is heavily regulated, it must contain a certain amount of actual cream too. Unfortunately shit tier “frozen desert” can be sold on the same shelf intermingled with the good stuff.

And the marketing doesn’t help either.

But it is very easy to check for the initiated bc it wont be labeled as ice cream. And easy to check ingredient list too. When I buy ice cream, I only buy when the first ingredient is actual cream.

Shameless plug for my sort lib

edit: Looking at my old code it might be time to add typescript, es6 and promises to make it ✨  p r o d u c t i o n   r e a d y  ✨

Yeah it pretty shitty. Will probably be used to disenfranchise students

I voted against it

Skydive terminology. Its not a chute, dammit, it’s a canopy or a wing.

I believe they’re already is one. Thanks for the offer though!

Oh you can’t instance ban yet just ban from communities.

There is an option for mods to ban.

Missing comma strikes again!

Oh it would be cool to see filter by instance for the getPosts endpoint too!

hmm, I don’t think Lemmy’s API allows for filtering communities by instance. That would be a really cool feature though!

Edit I found this open issue: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1298