I hadn’t thought about mentions. I was mainly thinking about just the vanity aspect of it. But now that you mention (no pun) it, it might be hard to know how to mention someone depending on their preferred vanity presentation. But I do agree it’s something that might need to be added to the metadata so all clients can handle it.
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lmao *handle* it.
my journey down this rabbit hole all started with the vanity of my name… having to balance having it written 3 times or be @zach on a handful of clients or having it all the same but sometimes having it wrap to the next line funny in damus.
I also think a lot of people have double names jack @jack just to copy him and be in the double first name club… they aren’t doing it to keep things consistent crossed nostr, but emulating this does keep it consistent so there isn’t a bunch of people reacting with the question, “why is my username different on different clients?”
for a while the way you have it set up… your mention would simply be @… damus has held out on this long enough that Iris and snort are pulling from \”name”\ if there isn’t display_name, so if more clients do that, damus could just bold the username if there was no “your name” as you have it. I would ditch \”display_name\” as you have if that was the case.