I made another lexicon, this time for representing plurality

After success with the pronoun lexicon, I wanted to build on that with something to try to address something that’s been difficult for me (us) personally on social media particularly: did/plurality representation.

Like when switching fronts, posting, interacting, etc, especially on bsky and other variants. Some plural systems use emojis to designate alters or members, and we’ve largely used those too. But it still felt limited in expression, and we believed there could be more for it, like avatars, banners, names etc. When who’s fronting changes, the whole profile changes without having to log out (some plural systems also keep separate accounts, but that’s too cumbersome for others)

So I wound up creating this. Designed it mostly for bsky, but if it could be applied in other settings or applications, that’d be awesome too :slight_smile: So I’m sharing it here

GitHub - skydeval/atproto-plural: An open ATProto lexicon for representing plural systems– multiple identities sharing one account.

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