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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    6 months ago

    Allowing people to better control how they’re identified. Not to write Zalgo spam on people’s screens.

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      6 months ago

      Fair enough, but I second the opinion it should be a base lemmy option to opt-in/out. Let those who want to see display names see them; and those who don’t just see the static username.

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        6 months ago

        Yes. Fine. I’m just saying “option to disable the feature” is not an ideal solution when people are abusing a feature. That doesn’t mean I think you shouldn’t be able to disable it.