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1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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.
What the fuck is a standard character? The world is too big for this kind of policing. I don't hang art on my wall, but I can't imagine wanting to BAN if I find it distracting if other people do it.
The words they write is in the language you want, but their identifier is distracting? I don't see the problem. Let Lemmy be fun. If you like plain font names, go by one. "Lemmy shouldn't allow... " arguments should have a lot more backing than what was expressed.
Edit: I will say that OP has convinced me that there is an in fact a problem with the implementation. Somehow in the very small post, there was no room to highlight the best example. There's a lot of scrolling to get the image posted in OP's comment
So is the unpopular opinion that there is a problem with that image? Because that kinda sounds like a popular opinion. Is the unpopular opinion that lemmy should only allow characters from a fixed set? This is where I think my mind would have to be changed. You have not convinced me this is the only solution.
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 ;)
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.
Uhh.. My opinion: Lemmy usernames (display) should only allow standard characters.
I can't make my opinion more simple.
Ok, thank you. When you said
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.
Of course you don't care. You've traveled in L space.
Edit: why is it huge? can someone tell me how to post that smaller? i uploaded a 229 pixel tall gif.
Edit 2: The irony of accidentally posting something that can render obnoxiously large on this thread in particular is not lost on me.
Probably because it's a webm, not a gif.
Right, I uploaded a gif to lemmy. That wasn't the question.
Is there a way to specify the geometry that is meant to be displayed?
Edit: Is a downvote taken to mean "I don't know"? Since they're anonymous, why bother? I know this isn't a support thread, but am I missing something? Was the "help" that it is a webm helpful? Are those inherently non-resizable? Why is it upscaling my ~200 px gif to what I am seeing? If this is a hard question, I can move to a support thread, but I was hoping someone knew off the dome.