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 “@davel”. 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:

|||
|---|---|
| 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.

  • [email protected]A
    6·
    1 year ago

    You don’t have a display name now, but maybe you did at some point?
    Maybe it’s just the removal of the display name that didn’t federate properly?
    Just a hunch

    • [email protected]A
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yup, I removed my own display name a while back but the change doesn’t reflect on remote instances.

    • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • [email protected]A
        2·
        1 year ago

        I don’t think it’s a functionality but that deleting one’s display name has issues federating to other instances.

      • [email protected]A
        2·
        1 year ago

        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.

  • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I just set my Display name to “Davel”. We’ll see if this propagates. Then 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.

    • [email protected]A
      2·
      1 year ago

      It’s not related to the markup table because I have the same issue with mine and nothing like that in my bio.

      I think display name federation is just (recently?) broken, but it was working a while ago when we both set these old display names.

      ie: we’re stuck with whatever display name we had when display name federation was last working