Because URLs are usually in ASCII. That was a standard. Check RFC 1738 and 3986. Now, you can use percent encoding, but why use that. It just complicates things.
forgejo: https://forgejo.asudox.dev/Asudox
matrix: https://matrix.to/#/@asudox:matrix.org
aspe:keyoxide.org:D63IYCGSU4XXB5JSCBBHXXFEHQ
Because URLs are usually in ASCII. That was a standard. Check RFC 1738 and 3986. Now, you can use percent encoding, but why use that. It just complicates things.
You won’t get non latin usernames anytime soon. But you can change the display name using non latin charactets
I never block anyone or any instance. I simply ignore them. I also use the subscribed feed, so what most of the people say about hexbear, lemmygrad, etc. content filling their feed also does not affect me.
That’s what uBlock Origin planned to do if YouTube ever decided to etch ads into the video stream itself.
I was just given a computer with unrestricted internet access and learnt it that way. Of course, the internet being unrestricted made me visit some questionable and illegal websites. Including CP and some hardcore NSFL using the tor browser. But I don’t regret it (other than the last points).
Looks like a fun community, I’ll join.
Long brainstorming sessions on how to implement my next Lemmy bot.
If that were to happen, the receiving end wouldn’t know who sent which vote, thus making spamming extremely easy.
GNU Taler
FlorisBoard Beta for keyboard
Grayjay for Youtube/Peertube/Twitch, etc.
K-9 Mail for mail
QUIK SMS for SMS
Mull for browser
Self hosted ente photos for cloud image/video storage
InnerTune for downloading/listening music
Taler Wallet for payments in the future
Keyguard for bitwarden password manager
Translate You for translator
Check my profile banner and you’ll see.
I use FlorisBoard Beta with the Material You theme. It looks amazing.
FUTO Keyboard also looks very pretty, but it’s a bit bloated.
I congratulate you, lemming. Here’s your medal:
None. I mostly download and torrent music from wherever I can find with reasonable quality.
Not much. As long as she’s a person with common sense and a bit of intelligence, I’m fine.
I agree. It feels nice to just have some random cat pop up randomly in my feed.
FlyingSquid seems to have alot of accounts on different instances
Locking as this question violates rule 5.
Using ASCII in URLs is simple and is less error prone than “supporting” unicode via percent encoding. It is also just a convention to use ASCII for usernames in many platforms. ASCII is also supported out of the box in major OSes while some unicode characters might not. What about impersonation? And what about people trying to type in the username of someone that uses unicode? It is not logical to use unicode in this case.