One is the username, the other is the display name. The client can show either of them. Mine (Thunder) let’s you configure that.
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gabereal@sopuli.xyz 2 days agoWhat the butts is going on here? Does lemmy.one show different usernames than lemmy.world and lemmy.blahaj.zone and sopuli.xyz?
laurelraven@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
papertowels@lemmy.one 2 days ago
No clue, could be instances, could be apps. I’ve definitely seen comments of “don’t you see their pronouns?” When the answer is genuinely, no. So I suspect it has something to do with that mechanism