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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm on kbin, but this all seems to be a decent replacement. Pretty cool I can sub to Lemmy posts

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Oh that's interesting. Normally when someone's on a different instance, it would say: @[email protected] or whatever as your username.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

it does if they don't set a display name. they probably set a display name

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh interesting. So it can look like they're from your instance but they might not be?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

you can tell if they set a display name by if there's an @ in the front. if it's not there, that's their display name. you can see their username + instance by clicking on their name

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ahh, so I just set a display name... what do you see on your instance for me now?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i still see your username, so the change hasn't federated to my instance yet. but when it does, you will show up as whatever you set your display name to

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

Interesting. Thanks!