diff --git a/Dalamud/Game/Text/SeStringHandling/Payloads/PlayerPayload.cs b/Dalamud/Game/Text/SeStringHandling/Payloads/PlayerPayload.cs
index 07a13e5a3..55697782e 100644
--- a/Dalamud/Game/Text/SeStringHandling/Payloads/PlayerPayload.cs
+++ b/Dalamud/Game/Text/SeStringHandling/Payloads/PlayerPayload.cs
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ using Dalamud.Data;
 
 using Lumina.Excel;
 using Lumina.Excel.Sheets;
+using Lumina.Text.Payloads;
+using Lumina.Text.ReadOnly;
+
 using Newtonsoft.Json;
 
 namespace Dalamud.Game.Text.SeStringHandling.Payloads;
@@ -84,50 +87,32 @@ public class PlayerPayload : Payload
     /// <inheritdoc/>
     protected override byte[] EncodeImpl()
     {
-        var chunkLen = this.playerName.Length + 7;
-        var bytes = new List<byte>()
-        {
-            START_BYTE,
-            (byte)SeStringChunkType.Interactable, (byte)chunkLen, (byte)EmbeddedInfoType.PlayerName,
-            /* unk */ 0x01,
-            (byte)(this.serverId + 1), // I didn't want to deal with single-byte values in MakeInteger, so we have to do the +1 manually
-            /* unk */ 0x01,
-            /* unk */ 0xFF, // these sometimes vary but are frequently this
-            (byte)(this.playerName.Length + 1),
-        };
-
-        bytes.AddRange(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(this.playerName));
-        bytes.Add(END_BYTE);
-
-        // TODO: should these really be here? additional payloads should come in separately already...
-
-        // encoded names are followed by the name in plain text again
-        // use the payload parsing for consistency, as this is technically a new chunk
-        bytes.AddRange(new TextPayload(this.playerName).Encode());
-
-        // unsure about this entire packet, but it seems to always follow a name
-        bytes.AddRange(new byte[]
-        {
-            START_BYTE, (byte)SeStringChunkType.Interactable, 0x07, (byte)EmbeddedInfoType.LinkTerminator,
-            0x01, 0x01, 0x01, 0xFF, 0x01,
-            END_BYTE,
-        });
-
-        return bytes.ToArray();
+        var ssb = Lumina.Text.SeStringBuilder.SharedPool.Get();
+        var res = ssb
+                  .PushLinkCharacter(this.playerName, this.serverId)
+                  .Append(this.playerName)
+                  .PopLink()
+                  .ToArray();
+        Lumina.Text.SeStringBuilder.SharedPool.Return(ssb);
+        return res;
     }
 
     /// <inheritdoc/>
     protected override void DecodeImpl(BinaryReader reader, long endOfStream)
     {
-        // unk
-        reader.ReadByte();
+        var body = reader.ReadBytes((int)(endOfStream - reader.BaseStream.Position));
+        var rosps = new ReadOnlySePayloadSpan(ReadOnlySePayloadType.Macro, MacroCode.Link, body.AsSpan());
 
-        this.serverId = GetInteger(reader);
+        if (!rosps.TryGetExpression(out _, out var worldIdExpression, out _, out var characterNameExpression))
+            return;
 
-        // unk
-        reader.ReadBytes(2);
+        if (!worldIdExpression.TryGetUInt(out var worldId))
+            return;
 
-        var nameLen = (int)GetInteger(reader);
-        this.playerName = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(reader.ReadBytes(nameLen));
+        if (!characterNameExpression.TryGetString(out var characterName))
+            return;
+
+        this.serverId = worldId;
+        this.playerName = characterName.ExtractText();
     }
 }