tartley, 10 months ago

@jon Possibly my OCD talking, but I wish we could omit the preceding "@". Stupid email, hogging the namespace! And I wish there was a way to unambiguously flag which service a qualified username refers to, without having to add an out of band clarification, or expecting users to either know domains by heart, or visit them in a browser to check.

mstankiewicz, 10 months ago

@jon and @user!

coolboymew, 10 months ago

@jon how about just not going on twitter, threads and other big corpos platforms?

isagalaev, 10 months ago

@jon they won't :-( People just can't seem to get over the idea that everything has to be owned by some brand, backed by someone's interests. The idea of a network being separate from an app is just so foreign it must be socialism or something...

heiglandreas, 10 months ago

@isagalaev Even if it belongs to a brand there's still a difference between janedoe@twitter.com, janedoe@instagram.com and janedoe@threads.com ...

So namespacing does make sense. Even without socialism 😉

/cc @jon

isagalaev, 10 months ago

@heiglandreas @jon it's not me who you need to convince, you know…

fell, 10 months ago

@jon It still bothers me that @matrix did not adopt this scheme.

matrix, 10 months ago

@fell @jon I /think/ that @user wasn't a thing when we created Matrix in 2014. the double at looks ugly; colon is prettier :P

fell, 10 months ago

@matrix @jon That's what I call an official answer! Fair enough, a lot of people seem to pefer the colon.

matrix, 10 months ago

@fell @jon the best thing is you can pronounce it "at matthew colon matrix.org" and then abbreviate 'colon' to 'on', so it becomes "at matthew on matrix.org". Whereas "at matthew at matrix.org" just sounds confusing ;P

fell, 10 months ago

@matrix @jon I mean, in my opinion "matthew at matrix.org" like #XMPP would've been perfectly fine. But whatever works.

dan, 10 months ago

@fell @matrix @jon @zash

raucao, 10 months ago

@matrix @fell @jon The double @ is superfluous. You can use normal user@domain addresses on fedi, too.

The idea that those didn't exist in 2014 is ludicrous. E-Mail being the obvious example. XMPP another one.

mariyadelano, 10 months ago

@jon ooh that is so much better!