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lemme just check the database configuration for mastodon……

mastodon *says* you should post to Discourse for support instead of Github, but as best as i can tell no mastodon developers actually check the Discourse

@monorail they (used to?) make vanilla dr pepper and a dr pepper float is just like that but with more vanilla and also ice cream

pseud support on kibicat mastodon? 🐚 maybe someday

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my profile kinda makes it look like i’m plural but no i just have a lot of pseuds

but anyway the fact that each unown letter has a corresponding english verb associated with it (via the Unown Report) screams “rune” to me

the name of :Unown_N_NUZZLE: is :Unown_N_NUZZLE::Unown_U_UNDO::Unown_Z_ZOOM::Unown_Z_ZOOM::Unown_L_LAUGH::Unown_E_ENGAGE: for example

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my understanding as someone who cannot read japanese is that this is a translation error, and the original pokédex entry just calls them “ancient characters” and not hieroglyphs specifically

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i find it funny that the unown letters are often compared to hieroglyphs when they are much more similar to runes

every time i see my display name this plays in my head

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@aescling if you mean “being able to federate with such an account”, yes, i’m planning on submitting a PR to fix this and we’ll see how it goes

if you mean “supporting the creation of such usernames locally”, eugen has already decided on not supporting this for a number of reasons

@aescling it is theoretically possible to fix this dependency on acct, but it is a lot of work AND it still wouldn't allow username switching if you're interested in compatibility with upstream mastodon

the best way to enable username switching would be by adding an additional property which represents the used username while maintaining the old immutable username for webfinger access, account URL/IRI, and mastodon compatibility

or by adding pseuds, which likewise

@aescling mastodon happens to use usernames in its URIs (okay look technically they’re called IRIs) but even if it didn't it wouldn't matter because it does webfinger by acct so that is its single source of truth

@aescling yes, the numerical id is not a global identifier (the global identifier is this thing called a Uniform Resource Identifier but mastodon doesn't keep track of accounts that way)

@jrc03c in jekyll? there is an includes_relative tag which might help: jekyllrb.com/docs/includes/

otherwise the more complicated solution involves using data files and building an include which takes parameter(s) and selects the appropriate data accordingly

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A small, community‐oriented Mastodon‐compatible Fediverse (GlitchSoc) instance managed as a joint venture between the cat and KIBI families.