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.

  • fmstratOP
    4•10 months ago

    Convincing was not the intent. This is Unpopular Opinion, not Convince Me Of Your Opinion. I don’t like them, and I expected that was unpopular ;)

    • Ook the Librarian
      -7•10 months ago

      But the fact that you don’t like them wasn’t the opinion you posted. You didn’t say even that they shouldn’t be used. It seems you’ve convinced a lot of people of that they shouldn’t be used. I’m clearly not an offender.

      The phrase “only allow” is in the headline. That is indeed an unpopular opinion. You brought it up with lemmy devs. No one thought your solution was feasible. I didn’t see anyone seriously not recognizing your annoyance.

      So you asked the experts. They ignored you. So now you are trying to convince (yes, you are here to convince to some level.) the non-experts at Unpopular Opinion of the very fallacious reasoning that limiting a character at the API is the only way to deal with this.

      Maybe I just am missing what opinion you are trying to state. But it seems like you want people to think that the devs should limit the character set because that is the only way you see to stop these distractions. I don’t want people bothering the devs with this solution. It was thought out. I hope there is an implementation that fits your needs.

      • fmstratOP
        2•10 months ago

        Uhh… My opinion: Lemmy usernames (display) should only allow standard characters.

        I can’t make my opinion more simple.

        • Ook the Librarian
          2•10 months ago

          Ok, thank you. When you said

          I don’t like them, and I expected that was unpopular ;)

          I thought you were backing off of the ban position. That’s the only thing I’m interested in arguing. Not liking the distracting ones doesn’t seem that unpopular. If I thought that were your position, I would have never posted in this thread.

          I was hoping that someone else would chime in. I’m not trying to argue you with you, fmstrat. I was just hoping for more engagement than a dozen downvotes. It’s clear that you are not here to argue. But that doesn’t mean I can’t. This is an opinion forum. I don’t care if OP argues. I want to.