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You are on lemmy.world
You can see the instance others are on by the @ after their name. If they don't have one, they are local to you.
I think that it depends on how you access lemmy. Iirc, voyager and some others allow you to toggle user instances (at least for comments)
That sounds odd if that is an option. My doesn't show instances if it's the same as mine. However, since this is all federated, you can have the same username as someone else from another instance. If it doesn't show instances then that could be confusing, if not used maliciously.
It’s not really locked or kept from us. We can just choose it to visually declutter.
I don’t really care what instance someone is from. If I need to know, I can just tap their name.
I don't really care what instance they're from, but I do care who they are. It's like if we just went by our first names here, there would be so much confusion with common first names. You'd need to at least use their last name to know if they're the same person or not. With federation, you can have the same name as someone else on a different instance. I don't really care where they're from usually, but it is important for identification.
In my opinion, this is less declutter and more obfuscation. There's potentially important information that isn't being shown. Often it isn't an issue, but sometimes it is.
Yeah, also when you click on an account you see the full name and when commenting.