I’m asking for private notes, that only you as a user can see.
Just to exemplify, a similar feature is over at mastodon, where you click on profile and you see an “add note” message, another implementation is over at discord.
It is a really useful feature when needing to remember certain users, like when you are looking at why you blocked someone or for when you interact with certain recurring users.
Is there an extension or feature for this, if not, has it been requested on GitHub, or am I restricted to having to keep a manual list myself?
Nope, sorry. I’m not talking about private message (dm’s if you will) but instead about notes.
Notes is a little thing you write under someone’s profile so that you, privately, xan remember said person.
Tongive you an example, let’s say we interacted in a post about international politics and you mentioned you are from Zimbabwe. I could add a note to your profile saying something like “from Zimbabwe”, you could not see this note as it would be for myself to cechk if I ever interact with you again.
Many other social media has this features, in discord I use it to check when people change usernames, in mastodon just to remember people, heck even in league og legends ypu can add notes to profiles in game which I use to remember friends of friends when I play with one.
Oh interesting, I have never seen that. I do sometimes keep offline notes about discussions I’ve had, like when someone says something interesting about a programming topic. The notes are usually not directly about the person, but of course they could be. Anyway that type of thing belongs on the client side, imho. Lemmy already does too much on the server side.
Mastodon implements it server-side. It’s just a convenience feature. Like bookmarks, draft posts. Why the hassle?
Among other things, that kind of info is private enough that the server should not store it or even see it. You chose an innocuous example “Poster X is from Belarus” but it might have easily been a private thought that you don’t want seen by others. You have to assume anything on the server will eventually escape. So, that info should only exist client side.