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Increase the pronoun limit (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 month ago by Edie@hexbear.net to c/hexbear@hexbear.net

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There is currently a 2 pronoun limit. I have talked with a some people over the months who have wished to have more than that.

As far as I am concerned, simply removing the line and going back to just an 80 char limit (which depending on the length of the pronoun sets limits you to a max of about 10/11) is good (and I would happily work on the ui to add more dropdowns if needed). But if that doesn't work lets figure out what else we can do.

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[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There is nothing in ActivityPub specifically regarding pronouns. They are treated as one type of optional metadata or another depending on the implementation. Mastodon users take an ad-hoc approach of setting a "pronouns" tag (which receives no special treatment in the software, but people can see it when looking at a user profile). Hexbear appends it to the display name. It would be interesting to get something like this standardized, but at the moment it is entirely ad-hoc as far as ActivityPub goes. You will find no official documentation (though you might find some discussions out there).