Why is it that when I try to search by username, it says that person doesn't exist- yet I can see their posts.
Why is it that when I try to search by username, it says that person doesn't exist- yet I can see their posts.
Title pretty much says it all.
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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?
You have to put the instance name if you want to search for a user. I just did the same search on voyager for dubyakay@lemmy.ca and it went straight to their profile.
Otherwise yeah, the search probably defaults to only users on your server.
@Ilikecheese@lemm.ee has the right of it. @Mastengwe@lemm.ee, to search for a user not on your instance, you have search for 'username@instancedomain'. If you only search the username, it will search only in your local instance.
Edit : but when trying to tag somebody, it is able to search through other instances so maybe there is a way to implement the same technique to the search section.
Edit 2 : all my points above are for specifically how voyager behaves not how lemmyui and other clients do.
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