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Feature request to replace user names having giant blue letters with the corresponding normal letters. More and more people are doing it, and it's annoying. (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by CrayonRosary to c/syncforlemmy

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Edited the image to stop putting the person on blast.

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[–] CrayonRosary 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How is that applicable?

[–] Bazoogle 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Not the original commenter, but it seems they're asking if lemmy is doing anything about imposters. These are all different characters: "Greek Ο (039F), Latin O (004F), and Cyrillic О (041E)" so someone could look like they have an official username, when really it's a different unicode character. Nothing to do with the actual IDN part, but moreso about the "homograph" part, or even more accurately, homoglyph

[–] CrayonRosary 1 points 10 months ago

I guess if someone were dumb enough to give money to a person on Lemmy just because they claimed to be Mr Beast or something. Otherwise I don't really see the "attack" part.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The problem (or not, depends on you) with Lemmy is that usernames aren't that unique when anyone can just setup a new instance or join a smaller one and register that username.

Most probably don't look at the instance what is looking at usernames.

Personally I couldn't care less to follow anyone on here. Who is who really doesn't matter. But maybe it does for someone.