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How do you want pronouns to be displayed in PieFed? (piefed.social)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/meta@piefed.blahaj.zone
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I'd love to hear everyone's ideas for how we can improve the way pronouns are shown in PieFed. Please let me know if this is the wrong place for this question and send people here if you think they'd like to contribute.

Currently, you can put pronouns in your display name, and in the extra fields on your profile. Display name federates fine to everywhere while extra fields only with Mastodon and friends. Like this:

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Can we do better, though? How would you like it?

e.g. when showing a popup card, the pronouns in the extra fields could be more prominent, up near the name near the top?

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Or maybe when someone is replying to you, the placeholder text inside the text entry field (before they start typing) could say what your pronouns are? Like this:

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Those are just ideas to start a discussion, not options to choose from - maybe you have something completely different in mind?

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[–] [S] 3 points 9 months ago

Thank you for your ideas and feedback, everyone!

I'm going to make it so that when someone adds pronouns to their Extra Fields it will also be shown as a flair beside their name, like this:

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That flair will be used wherever you haven't set a community-level flair. If you've set a flair within a community that'll be used on posts in that community instead.

If the same pronouns are in the display name then the flair isn't shown, to avoid showing it twice.

Because the pronoun flair comes from the Extra Fields, it's already public information so there's no possibility of unexpectedly disclosing it in places where you'd rather not (it'll always be public everywhere, this change just boosts it's visibility). I love the idea of having proper controls over who sees it and when but ActivityPub doesn't have fine-grained access control built in to the protocol so I'd rather not go there and become responsible for sensitive data.

@ada@piefed.blahaj.zone @catfeeder@piefed.blahaj.zone @hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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