I've jumped completely over to lemmy and am mulling writing a bot to replicate external content to my instance (from e.g., unmigrated subreddits);
the UX is fantastic though, tons of original content with almost zero spam. scaling the network seems hard as every event is a POST request (lol) but the community will persevere and overcome this imo
The simplest solution to storing people's names is a standard character field of reasonable length. Perhaps another one for "legal name" if needed. Maintaining a `tzdata` equivalent for names is a losing battle IMHO