I accidentally invoked Hexbear’s pronoun insertion feature (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If your “bio” contains a table like so, your username, on Hexbear, will appear as USERNAME [XXX/YYY]@lemmygrad.ml

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|---|---|
| Pronouns | XXX/YYY |

I haven’t looked at Hexbear’s source code, nor experimented further, so I don’t know what limitations there are, but I know you can add other rows to the table without breaking the feature.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

You’d think “pronoun” would be in the source code 🤷 https://github.com/search?q=org%3Ahexbear-collective+pronoun&type=code

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I think they're just in the display name. I don't see your pronouns even tho you have the table in the bio.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Yes, it’s a display feature, that’s only visible on Hexbear:

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

My wild-assed guess—being unfamiliar with Lemmy code or even ActivityPub—is that this is being set in some configuration file that’s not publicly checked in, having to do with profile key/value metadata, which is extensible.
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/activitypub/#PropertyValue

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