this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2024
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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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

They just look like regular text on the Boost app.

[–] ammonium 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

What is a standard character? It's not a simple question.

[–] Plagiatus 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

They're probably talking about a-zA-Z0-9, maybe _.-

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Plagiatus 4 points 10 months ago

Ï døñ't kńõ2w whåt ÿōû'rë tælkìng äbôüt.

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

Don't forget 0, that's valid as well.

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[–] ammonium 3 points 10 months ago

They are probably yes, but the French might not agree since é isn't included. Let alone the vast majority of the world who doesn't use the latin alphabet.

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[–] Neon 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

They render as plaintext in Voyager

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