The developers said this is a common issue in Lemmy as well, but they made a change to fix these during the weekly maintenance run, so they will automatically unpin within a week if they don’t happen automatically.

Hi,
I went ahead and unpinned them. Thanks for pointing it out.

I don’t see any way to set a moderator to just be able to unpin.

I opened an issue for this: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/1075

The developers usually respond quickly.

Jerry

Thanks! I have no art talent, so I turned to AI. I used canva.com to create it.

Yeah. I believe you are right. The account username is “ænima” but I only see “Ænima” on posts and stuff.

I don’t see a workaround. Both the display name and the account name have the same special character. The only option may be to start over with a new account, and give up the great look :(

Hi.

So I checked the logs, and it turns out that your username, Ænima, which, by the way, I love, is causing your votes to be rejected.

https://feddit.online/activities/like/<id> Like failure could not send:‘ascii’ codec can’t encode character ‘\xc6’ in position 31: ordinal not in range(128)

@rimu@mastodon.nzoss.nz @rimu@piefed.social Rimu, is this just a Piefed limitation, or would these special characters be impacting for other Fediverse applications? What is the best approach for resolving this?

Rimu is the main developer. If he doesn’t see this, I’ll ping him.

I’m sorry about this. I know it’s frustrating.