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Edited the image to stop putting the person on blast.
This is related another issue too, does lemmy do anything to deal with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack?
this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2024
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How is that applicable?
I saw this post way back in September last year (which was quickly removed), and have been seeing this guy's custom name popping up everywhere since. It's very annoying. I'm all for blocking custom characters in display names.
It's a way to complicated suggestion
Instead do a sha256 of @
becomes
๐cb76aae36c๐@lemmy.fake
And just to f with people add some emojis before and after.
AKA the Discord approach
@_________ac called out
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I edited the image to mask the name. Can you please delete this comment?
No, but I edited it.
Fair. They had posted (and then deleted) a bunch of comments to this post asking to have it taken down, which is why I edited the image. It made them very anxious.
I never get to have a fancy font name.
Less jarring than emoji at least.
I think a simple solution of letting user turn on and off the display name will be nice.
You shouldn't need to disable display names just to combat the 0.01% of people with annoying names. NFKC normalization is a better solution.
Counterpoint, only "0.01%" of names use annoying font. If thats all it takes to be noticeable, perhaps a toggle is better, then?