I was wondering about this. I was surprised to get this name on an active instance. What would the next persons display name be on my instance if they signed up as Artemis?
Do the display names actually change how your name appears in posts? I remember trying it some time ago, but it still defaulted to the original username.
That’s what it’s supposed to do. But not all apps respect user set display names. The webUI does, that’s why some users have their full handle displayed, while others don’t. The former are users who did not set their display names to anything.
Thunder used the handles of users without the instance name, at first, but I made github issue requesting it respect display names, since that’s what they are for.
Lemmy has display names.
Two users can have the same name on the same instance, even.
If you need to confirm someone is who they seem to be, the full handle is the only unique aspect.
I was wondering about this. I was surprised to get this name on an active instance. What would the next persons display name be on my instance if they signed up as Artemis?
That’s my point. It requires that other users actually check.
Reddit is bad in the same way. It has supported display names for a while now.
Do the display names actually change how your name appears in posts? I remember trying it some time ago, but it still defaulted to the original username.
That’s what it’s supposed to do. But not all apps respect user set display names. The webUI does, that’s why some users have their full handle displayed, while others don’t. The former are users who did not set their display names to anything.
Thunder used the handles of users without the instance name, at first, but I made github issue requesting it respect display names, since that’s what they are for.