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...Did you add an unescaped RTL toggle character on your user name?
I strongly think Lemmy clients should have a toggle to show usernames instead of display names. Some of the Unicode is super obnoxious.
And now you're about to nerd-snipe me into checking if control characters are valid for user names in ActivityPub
For the record, I noticed because I use Friendica:
Jeroba only flips the instance domain, that is way more wild
Yay I am in screenshot
Nice
Funnily enough, it is correctly escaped in the client they developed, Photon
Same with voyager
Call me unsurprised if @Xylight added it as a way to test for rendering errors across Fediverse clients
i do remember doing that a long time ago
Doing QA testing for free? You and lil bobby tables would get along great
By the way, if you want to replicate this effect for fun and profit, the control character you're searching for is U+202E RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE (or RLO for short)