@NatalieKelda

Hey there, welcome! 👋 Nice to see more writers on here!

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The @s are as long as email addresses because the network on here has a similar structure to email. Instead of one massive site owned by Musk, this place is thousands of smaller sites connected together. The extra long @ addresses tell the system which site a server signed up on, so they can connect.