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so far they seem to be chill, though i wish the cool users had pronouns on so i know not to activate kill mode on them
The lack of pronouns from other instances has been bothering me too
I don't know if it's a federation/lemmy limitation, or users not picking one, or if other instances didn't enable a feature or something, mind you
afaik other instances you can change names, hexbear disables that and instead changes your name with the tag system. if they wanted they could just copy hexbears code over and itd append the pronouns to the username
That also explains why I saw a user recently with a different internal name (in the URL) than their display name, thanks !
Changing accounts periodically is good opsec. (I know, do as I suggest, not as I do.)
I refresh accounts once I hit 10k comments to hide my shame
god and I thought I posted too much for hitting 3k comments on two accounts.
I wish i could change mine after Zizek's relatively recent string of terrible takes, but in all fairness i should actually just nuke this account and start a new one, for opsec reasons.
yeah, I wish they'd just append the pronouns to the display name so the main field could be edited.
it's not trivial. it means storing the pronouns field in the database separately from the display name and then updating frontends. and there's issues with length limits that have to be sorted out. I'm also not sure if the lemmy devs would accept the PR as they seemed kinda sour on the idea of adding pronoun tags when it got suggested in an issue.
pull-request, it's how code changes are reviewed, tested, and accepted. here's a link to the issue so you can read it for yourself
yes
it's not really about that. it's a process thing to make sure changes are well-thought through, do what they're purported to do, and don't have any knock-on effects that would be unexpected. the model is used in basically all forms of software development -- most projects use them even for core devs. people only push changes directly into the repo when there's an emergency and something needs to be fixed immediately.
Am I doing it correctly? I tried to add them by manually changing my display name.
it hasn't federated yet but it should eventually
edit: oh I clicked on your profile and it immediately resynced. we see it now.