who the hell is duc? :enbyfied: :verifiedcat: (@duc)

ijo Stella @stella@tech.lgbt

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Can anyone explain to me why mastodon strips formatting and diacritics off hashtags? The loss of casing makes it a whole lot harder to understand at a glance what something is about (ex. # addbacontomakeitbetter is hard to parse for me, and # kevinmitnick is interpreted by me as the german phrase "Kevin mit Nick" rather than the name "Kevin Mitnick"), and the loss of diacritics means that non-english hashtags can change meaning or become meaningless entirely! I always have to think a couple times before realizing that the trending "# lowin" is actually the german word "Löwin" and not some weird english name. Why does this happen? It seems like a serious accessibility and i18n flaw to me

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who the hell is duc? :enbyfied: :verifiedcat: @duc@miau.jeder.pl

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@stella i think it happens so that hashtags are case insensitive, and the easiest way to parse them and ignore capitalization is by making it all lower case

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ijo Stella @stella@tech.lgbt

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@duc i dont think it would be much to ask to look at the most common capitalization and use that as the default displayed one instead. again, big accessibility thing, which the mastodon userbase seems to be pretty big on generally

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who the hell is duc? :enbyfied: :verifiedcat: @duc@miau.jeder.pl

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@stella probably, i do agree with you, was just theorizing why they did that
i do feel that it shouldn't be too hard, considering they already parse them all for trending

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who the hell is duc? :enbyfied: :verifiedcat: @duc@miau.jeder.pl

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@stella github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/9913

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