Edit to add: @InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works’s comment has convinced me that this is an ongoing display name bug that’s unrelated to my bio. I don’t think this is worth further investigation by anyone.
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:
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| Pronouns | he/him |
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?
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.
I don’t think it’s a functionality but that deleting one’s display name has issues federating to other instances.