# social.yakka.actor.profile

> Published by [yakka.social](https://lexicon.garden/identity/did:plc:l4qgvpbuaoktrgdo4aweye6j)

✓ This is the authoritative definition for this NSID.

## Links

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## Definitions

### `social.yakka.actor.profile`

**Type**: `record`

Yakka's half of a person's profile, layered over app.bsky.actor.profile (ADR 0027 §3). Resolution is per field and lowest-precedence-first: a present field here overrides the same field there, and an absent one never blanks it. This record deliberately does NOT restate displayName, description or avatar — those have a home in the network already, and restating one would mean a name changed in any other atproto client stops showing on yakka. What lives here is what Bluesky has no field for.

**Key**: `literal:self`

| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|----------|------|----------|-------------|
| `pronouns` | `string` | No | Free text rather than an enum: the set is not ours to close, and a picker that omits somebody is worse than a field they can fill in. |
| `createdAt` | `string` (datetime) | Yes |  |

## Raw Schema

```json
{
  "id": "social.yakka.actor.profile",
  "defs": {
    "main": {
      "key": "literal:self",
      "type": "record",
      "record": {
        "type": "object",
        "required": [
          "createdAt"
        ],
        "properties": {
          "pronouns": {
            "type": "string",
            "maxLength": 64,
            "description": "Free text rather than an enum: the set is not ours to close, and a picker that omits somebody is worse than a field they can fill in.",
            "maxGraphemes": 32
          },
          "createdAt": {
            "type": "string",
            "format": "datetime"
          }
        }
      },
      "description": "Yakka's half of a person's profile, layered over app.bsky.actor.profile (ADR 0027 §3). Resolution is per field and lowest-precedence-first: a present field here overrides the same field there, and an absent one never blanks it. This record deliberately does NOT restate displayName, description or avatar — those have a home in the network already, and restating one would mean a name changed in any other atproto client stops showing on yakka. What lives here is what Bluesky has no field for."
    }
  },
  "$type": "com.atproto.lexicon.schema",
  "lexicon": 1
}
```