based on #12680 but some reductions: some cases were already changed by vim/vim (just according to keikaku) focus on direct mention of the user which was the major concern.
It’s actually surprising how many people here aren’t okay with this, especially since I always assumed Lemmy to be a mostly leftist/progressive platform. IMO, the new “they” wording sounds way better than “s/he” (and far better than just “he”), and is also inclusive of nonbinary people.
You can add preferred pronouns in your display name. Most people do something like “Preferred Username (pronouns)”. You can also put it in your user bio, like I did.
The first idea is how it is done in AP part of the fediverse, however, could not work very well with quite long names.
The second idea has the issue of visibility.
In addition, there is a set of rules mostly set when organizing data in DBs. These are called “Normalization”. A field for usernames is no place for it but its own one in the user table and the reasons are the same why “Normalization” exists.
can someone pls explain why so much importance is put into pronouns? imo it puts additional emphasis on gender when all of us could benefit a lot from deemphasizing it tbh
It’s actually surprising how many people here aren’t okay with this, especially since I always assumed Lemmy to be a mostly leftist/progressive platform. IMO, the new “they” wording sounds way better than “s/he” (and far better than just “he”), and is also inclusive of nonbinary people.
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In HexBear, preferred pronouns were added, but not in Lemmy.
Mmmm, I was wrong: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1017
But, why I don’t see it?
EDIT:
Okay, I misread here.
You can add preferred pronouns in your display name. Most people do something like “Preferred Username (pronouns)”. You can also put it in your user bio, like I did.
The first idea is how it is done in AP part of the fediverse, however, could not work very well with quite long names.
The second idea has the issue of visibility.
In addition, there is a set of rules mostly set when organizing data in DBs. These are called “Normalization”. A field for usernames is no place for it but its own one in the user table and the reasons are the same why “Normalization” exists.
I feel like a dedicated post or an issue on GitHub would get this issue the proper discussion it needs.
Yes, sorry for the delay. I was checking if someone asked it in the issues before but I stopped.
can someone pls explain why so much importance is put into pronouns? imo it puts additional emphasis on gender when all of us could benefit a lot from deemphasizing it tbh