• Draconic NEO@pawb.socialOP
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      21 days ago

      I wonder how Lemmy handles extremely long profile names like that, obviously it doesn’t let us set them but it must handle them somehow since, you know, federation.

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        20 days ago

        Text overflow ellipses. Displaynames and usernames usually are retrieved at most once per load per user. Any other reference to the user will prefer an instance-specific UUID. The only real hard limit will be the result of their respective field types in the database.