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A supported fork of Mastodon that provides local posting and a wider range of content types.
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Add a user setting to show/hide domains on remote usernames #1254

Closed dariusk closed 1 year ago

dariusk commented 1 year ago

Adds a user toggle in the preferences menu:

Show full username (including domain) for remote users

This is true by default and displays usernames in mentions like so:

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It only shortens the username of local accounts. The main reason for this is so that there is a clear visual indicator of who is local on a thread -- this is important for local-only posting reasons. But we've been using it on Friend Camp for 3 years now and it's actually really nice for getting a sense of who is on what server, too.

The bulk of this work was done by Callie on Friend Camp in October 2019.

Fixes #1247