I believe they’re taking about in your own profile, you can set your display name to be different from your username. For instance, my username is AFKBRBChocolate, but I have it set to display with spaces. If you click on the username in a post, it should show you what it really is.
Looking at this from Voyager you have no custom name displayed, it is just “AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world“. My guess is that voyager doesn’t show those, same as with profile pictures.
Please don’t apologize for wanting to be helpful! At least I learned about a new feature that is essentially hidden from me as a mobile only user. Good to know!
I don’t have an account on lemm.ee, so that is why it likely does not come up. Not sure how to expand search within servers federated with your instance in voyager.
I doubt it is the nickname feature since according to the person who first brought up the feature responded to the first person bringing it up their chosen nickname is different from what I can see, which is their actual account name. Refer to the according comments further up
I believe they’re taking about in your own profile, you can set your display name to be different from your username. For instance, my username is AFKBRBChocolate, but I have it set to display with spaces. If you click on the username in a post, it should show you what it really is.
Looking at this from Voyager you have no custom name displayed, it is just “AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world“. My guess is that voyager doesn’t show those, same as with profile pictures.
Oh, could be. I got here sorting by new, and I’m not a Voyager user, but I thought I had some insight. Maybe I don’t - apologies for the detour.
Please don’t apologize for wanting to be helpful! At least I learned about a new feature that is essentially hidden from me as a mobile only user. Good to know!
So how would one know what someone’s actual user name is?
Pretty sure we always see the actual user name, but not the custom nicknames.
Nope. Because when I try and search most people, it says they don’t exist.
Can you provide an actual example?
Sure thing!
I don’t have an account on lemm.ee, so that is why it likely does not come up. Not sure how to expand search within servers federated with your instance in voyager.
So it only searches without my own instance?
Perhaps its a federation issue?
I doubt it is the nickname feature since according to the person who
first brought up the featureresponded to the first person bringing it up their chosen nickname is different from what I can see, which is their actual account name. Refer to the according comments further up