r/UkraineWarVideoReport: Community Driven Videos/Photos/Updates and Discussion on the Ukrainian War
  • admin@lemmit.onlineMEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Unfortunately, Lemmy cannot handle community names over 20 characters, so this won’t be possible.

      • admin@lemmit.onlineMEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        That could work, but it would be terrible for discoverability. In the mean time, I put up a feature request at Lemmy. I’m not a fan of pushing my problems upstream, but in this case it would actually be the easiest solution - as far as I can see (and I have 0 experience with Rust) they only need to adjust the validation regex, because the database already allows for it. That is - as long as the ActivityPub protocol allows for it.

        If they deny it, I could try something with name mapping, but you’d either end up with something that is unreadable, or something with a high collision chance. Neither option is very appealing. For now I’m just going to wait and see.

        • Wander@yiffit.netEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          AFAIK max username length on Mastodon is 50 characters. That should be a sensible limit that would allow keeping us interoperating with them.