The mystery of the preferred pronouns injection
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:
<span style="color:#323232;">|||
</span><span style="color:#323232;">|---|---|
</span><span style="color:#323232;">| Pronouns | he/him |
</span>
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?
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.
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.
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