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most clients use \”display_name\”for mentions

damus uses \”name\” which corresponds to username

I wish this wasn’t the case and clients could agree, or a 3rd metadata is created for the name you want to be mentioned as, which clients could freely map which ever positioned name too.

astral does a cool thing where nip 05 is truncated with \”name\” if they are the same

I have a hunch that we just desperately want to avoid using nip 05 for mentions because that would mean double @‘s like on mastodon (even if we don’t render the first one, it still has to be typed to tag) which is indeed a valid critique and something to avoid

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yunginter.net 2y ago

a quick fix could be to just make usernames bold in damus if no your name is found… it looks to me snooping your profile as if most clients will render mentions and profiles from \”name\” if no \”display_name\” is found.

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