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Is this a bot account? Living up to the username for sure.
The heck? I didn't get it at first, but I looked at this in a Lemmy instance and the OP name is different? On kbin, OP is xtremeownage. But on the original instance, their username somehow shows up as HTTP_404_NotFound, but still links as xtremeownage.
Does Lemmy have some sorta different display name vs username thing?
Yeah, you can change your display name in your account settings.
Their actual username is xtremeownage, which is why it still links that way, but lemmy lets users set a display name that's different from their username (in this case, HTTP_404_NotFound). Sounds like kbin doesn't respect lemmy display name settings.
yes, that is a feature of Lemmy
That's the difference between username and display name.
My username is Mallard, which shows up as @Mallard, and I've set my display name as Mallard too, which shows up as Mallard (without the @).
Yep, if you go into your settings (since you're on beehaw, that should be https://beehaw.org/settings) you'll be able to set a display name there!