Edit to add: @[email protected]’s comment has convinced me that this is an ongoing display name bug that’s unrelated to my bio. I don’t think this is worth further investigation by anyone.
If have not assigned a “Display name” to my @davel@lemmy.ml account, and as expected—at least on lemmy.ml—it displays as “”. However, on every other instance it displays as “davel [he/him] (@davel@lemmy.ml)” (on Hexbear.net it looks slightly different: “davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml”).
My “Bio” consists of a Markdown table, and the pronouns must be coming from it:
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| Pronouns | he/him |
I skimmed the lemmy & lemmy-ui codebases for this functionality and couldn’t find anything, but I’m not a Rust developer.
Does anyone know where this functionality is coming from?
Edit to add: I have now set my Display name to “Davel”. We’ll see if this propagates. Later, I’ll delete my Display name, and see if “Dave” is retained by other instances. Then I’ll know that this is unrelated to the Markup table.
It seems to appear on sh.itjust.works as well, at least when accessed via a browser. Are you on a browser? If not, then this would suggest the functionality is in the lemmy-ui codebase.
I see he/him for you in Sync
I had a display name but it was a bit too long so I’ve deleted it locally.
Remote instances still display it.
Mine has nothing to do with the bio or pronouns, it’s just a federation bug.
I just re-added a (different) display name, testing…
I don’t think it’s a functionality but that deleting one’s display name has issues federating to other instances.