• admin@lemmit.onlineM
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    1 year ago

    That could work, but it would be terrible for discoverability. In the mean time, I put up a feature request at Lemmy. I’m not a fan of pushing my problems upstream, but in this case it would actually be the easiest solution - as far as I can see (and I have 0 experience with Rust) they only need to adjust the validation regex, because the database already allows for it. That is - as long as the ActivityPub protocol allows for it.

    If they deny it, I could try something with name mapping, but you’d either end up with something that is unreadable, or something with a high collision chance. Neither option is very appealing. For now I’m just going to wait and see.

    • Wander@yiffit.net
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      1 year ago

      AFAIK max username length on Mastodon is 50 characters. That should be a sensible limit that would allow keeping us interoperating with them.

      • admin@lemmit.onlineM
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, I’ve upped the limit on this server, so it should come through now if you retry.