get subjective names

[mixmix]

Hi all, I've just patchql based name getting working in patchbay, which is a buzz!

What I want to re-implement is the ability to have subjective names. i.e. I've renamed someone, and I want that to be the name that I see.

I can see abouts are getting figured out here :
https://github.com/sunrise-choir/ssb-patchql/blob/master/src/db/models/abouts.rs#L86-L106

I can kinda see how you would just maybe skip .filter(messages_author_id.eq(author_id)) , but not really sure where to go beyond there. Would want :

• the most recent about by each butt
• to return something like an Object of opinions about feedX :

{
  feedA: { name: 'The Real Piet' },
  feedB: { name: 'Fake piet' },
  feedB: { name: 'Piet'}
}

obviously I don't know what data structures make sense. I'm kind of assuming that it would be good to leave it to devs to decide how to reduce these opinions so the graphql could end up looking like :

{
  author(id: FeedId) {
    name: String,  // what's currently there

    names: {
      edges {
        node {
          author: Author,
          name: String
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

[pietgeursen]

Just leaving a note here after our discussion yesterday @mixmix .
I think we decided that adding the ability to include names for someone if the author of the name is followed by the namer. Eg.

Piet follows Mix. Mix names Piet. Include Mix's nickname for Piet.

I have the opinion that when displaying an Author's name in the ui should be their self assigned name. But I can see that there are times where it's useful, eg for suggestion boxes.

[mixmix]

yes, this is where we got to. Concrete example was that I want to be able to mention @mikey and @ahdinosaur and not be forced into some global single namespace. The is one of the beauties of scuttlebutt - pluralism. For myself this also solves a challenges where I can't necessarily remember what the name of a person is in this particular context, ... concrete example is that cel is @cel @celehner @clehner on different platforms (ssb, github, npm !!)

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