pronoun-plugin

A fediverse *key plugin that adds pronouns to display names

Features

Shows pronouns in the username on a post
Works with my plural plugin and fetches the right pronouns
Notifications when there is an update

Setup

Copy the contents of plugin.is
go to your settings on your *key software
Go to the plugins tab
Click install plugins
Paste the code in
Hit install
It will ask you to accept some permissions. Accept them.

How does it work

There are 2 algorithms. The basic one just scans descriptions and labels for basic pronouns like she/her and he/him, ect. The other one is more fancy and can find custom pronouns by detecting stuff with a slash inbetween them. Its smart and wont detect fractions and other things but from time to time it pulls the wrong thing. This is the new default.

What are the permissions I am accepting for?

write:notifications is used to send you a notification when a new version of the plugin is released. You can turn this off in the plugin settings once its installed read:account is for the same thing (It is used to grab a json post so it can compare versions)

Im plural how do I get it to find my pronouns?

This works with my plural plugin and detects - posted by so set that up first.

Then edit your profile description so that it has the headmates name (exactly as entered in the plural plugin) and then the pronouns underneath it (It doesn't matter where, just do it before the next headmates section)

Here is an example:

What if I want to mention another headmate in one of my headmates bios?

If you want to mention a headmate in another headmates bio it will confuse the plugin so please escape it properly. Lets say this is your bio:

Emma
Friends with Brian
She/Her

Brian
He/Him

This will confuse the plugin when grabbing Brian's pronouns since it will think Brian's pronouns are She/Her To fix this please escape it like this

Emma
Friends with <plain>B</plain>rian
She/Her

Brian
He/Him

Escaping one of the letters like this will make it so the plugin won't see this as that headmate and will now correctly set Brian's pronouns to He/Him. This will also look totally normal to anyone else looking at your bio.

Known bugs we cant fix

The pronouns only sometimes show up

This is a misskey bug that I cannot do anything about

The plural pronouns part doesnt work when I click into a post

Again this is a misskey bug

Extra notes and thanks

Tested in sharkey, and misskey

Thanks to miaapancake for allowing me to use the screenshots in this readme

If there are any bugs feel free to message me on @ChaosKitsune@woem.men

ChaoticLeah / pronoun-plugin