Global User Flairs

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Is your proposal related to a problem?

It would be useful to highlight the comments from developers, for example in the various posts about "Lemmy needs more donations". Or in general when discussing issues or feature requests. This could be implemented quite easily with a hardcoded list, such as:

ap_id: "@[email protected]", flair: "Lemmy developer"
ap_id: "[email protected]", flair: "Voyager client developer"
etc

This flair would be shown on each post and comment of the user. The list can be defined directly in lemmy-ui, or made available as an api endpoint so other clients can also use it. It is in contrast to the user flairs requested in https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1456 which are limited to a certain community (just like the post tags added in https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/5869).

Besides flairs could also be given to donors as an incentive. In this case it would have to be hosted on join-lemmy.org and updated automatically via API from Patreon etc. Then donors who link their Lemmy account would automatically receive a flair on their posts and comments.

Related to https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3703