cross-posted from: https://lemmy.basedcount.com/post/475954

As anticipated a few days ago in our last announcement post, we are now rolling out user flairs for our instance.

At the moment they are only active in [email protected] , however they can also be enabled in other communities if the moderators desire it. Of course flairs aren’t necessarily limited to the Political Compass. Mods (looking at you @[email protected] and @[email protected] ) can use them however they see fit.

For the next few days the only way to add, delete or modify them will be by kindly asking me (I need to manually edit the database), however I plan on bringing those features to the UI as soon as possible.

A couple more notes:

• flairs are only available and visible to users of this instance. Users from federated instances will look unflaired, you will look unflaired to them. It’s just the way it goes, this service isn’t part of the Lemmy server and thus doesn’t federate.
• flairs are only available on the website. If you browse through an app you won’t be able to see them either. Same reason as above.

Roadmap

There are some more updates to be made before we can say we are done with flairs:

• Adding mod tools to the UI (mod only window to create, edit and delete flairs in a community they moderate
• Adding limited support for other instances through a browser extension
• Porting flairchange_bot and basedcount_bot to [email protected] . Possibly other communities as well.

We don’t have any plans for adding flairs support to mobile applications.