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Lemmy user names should only allow standard characters (lemmy.nowsci.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/unpopularopinion

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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.

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[–] Buffalox 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mean the avatar.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You use a client that shows avatars? I disable all that stuff ASAP. Same with Reddit, never saw any avatars or awards or snoos... blocked all of it.

[–] Buffalox 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

My client is called web browser. But thanks, because I found that I can disable it here too.

[–] grue 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Okay, but which one? Our instance has a bunch of alternative UIs:

[–] Buffalox 2 points 10 months ago

What? I didn't know that. 😀 👍 I'm using default lemmy world, that works fine for me. And I found out avatars can be disabled, so I did that.
But I'll definitely check out the other interfaces.