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Arguably @ is a Fedi symbol already. Adding the domain is generally all it takes.
by yawgmoth 2y ago
Arguably @ is a Fedi symbol already. Adding the domain is generally all it takes.
- krapp 2y agoArguably, the fediverse got it from Twitter, and Twitter got it from the syntax of email addresses, which came from Unix user@domain account signifiers
- glenstein 2y agoThe one bummer I have about Mastodon is that it takes what used to be a kind of sort of meaningfully understood usage of @ and turns it into scrambled eggs with @user@instance.social for it's usage in use names. It's the one place where I would begrudgingly acknowledge that blue sky has a compelling rationale. And yes I'm aware that Mastodon omits the second @ for users on the same server, it's a imperfect compromise that sometimes helps but largely leaves the problem unresolved.