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(Updated: I changed Twitter to X and User to Profile. I intentionally left out Bluesky because their approach to profile naming doesn't fit this paradigm and precedent.)
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Jonah Stein@jon Focus on the user and the NAMESPACE.
While mastodon.social is likely to continue using the Mastodon, ActivityPub federation is agnostic to which app the user accesses their account and the namespace (instance) may migrate from mastodon to another application.
@jonahstein right, but the namespace becomes secondary. There's no longer the decision to choose Twitter over another, which has been the norm up to this point. Media can be agnostic.
@jon In the context of Twitter, I agree. Moreover, I think it is really important that we normalize user accounts on social media being @domain just like an email addresses.
Many Colors, Many Forms, Many Flavors, Maybe More@jon Noβonly do this for platforms which are actually federated. Continue to use the platform's name and the non-federated username for monocentralized platforms (e.g. β@elon on Twitterβ). This includes Facebook Threads, which has an end goal of being monocentralized.
Monocentralized services do not have federation-parts, and frequently they do not have open protocols either. Treating them the same way gives the illusion that there is some choice or freedom, which is not true. Do not do this.
Monocentralized services do not have federation-parts, and frequently they do not have open protocols either. Treating them the same way gives the illusion that there is some choice or freedom, which is not true. Do not do this.
@polychromata @jon They give the opposite idea to me, they make them seem highly locked down for not being able to interact with everyone else. But even if this specifically isn't widely adopted, something has to be done about the power companies get out of @ usernames, they all want to own them, for people to assume @user refers to their platform
scohoe@jon what service makes posting to all of them at the same time easy?
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@jon i think [email protected] looks better because 2 @'s looks weird
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@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...
Alerta! Alerta!@isagalaev Even if it belongs to a brand there's still a difference between [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected] ...
So namespacing does make sense. Even without socialism π
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@jon Easy to convey why this new way with now more than one social network doing the whole thing Twitter used to be alone in.
You donβt email: president. You email: [email protected]
Weβre out of the days off CompuServe style microblogging. Thereβs more than a major player now, time to do what we did once CompuServe needed to do more than 71234,56.
I get why press still put @ exampleusername and assume everyone will just think Twitter but that thinking is becoming dated.
Tuncay@jon That's how Fediverse already works. If Twitter or Threads use the same naming scheme, it wouldn't change much if they do not federate with Fediverse.
Nue (old account follow new one)@jon Nobody think this is strange when it is regarding e-mail. But for chat and other social media it is for some reason unthinkable.
Catherine is not complacent@jon or you could just leave Twitter to continue its death spiral without you.
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Meowking@jon wait Twitter is federated now????
Maxi 12x π@jon Gets too complicated with obscure Mastodon instance URLs.
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Kristoffer Lawson@jon ironically #Threads is somewhat normalising that already. Every account there appears with the host showing (of which there of course currently is only one, threads.net). I think that shows they have been intent on joining the Fediverse. Business realities may yet change that (we will have to wait and see).
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Sgeo@jon how does this work with Bluesky, whose handles are arbitrary domain names without a user?
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An amendment I would add is the notion indicate whether this is is wenfingerable or not.
Alternatively, let the universal id be an HTTP URI. After all that is what ActivityPub standard calls for, as well.
doublejay@jon posts like this really make me miss tagging people in a retweet.
There is plenty of MSM in this platform - but they are mostly transmit only
Tea time.@jon One great way to leverage this common sense solution is to contact the people responsible for widely used style guides.
For example, readers can contact the Chicago Manual of Style and ask them about this, pointing out this suggestion as a very good idea.
https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/submitaquestion.html
@jon (Chicago Manual of Style was kind of my Bible when I did technical writing. It's also influenced other industries and forms of writing, no doubt, and is a good place to start. I do suggest that anyone who knows of other style guides suggest them in the comments, though, so they can also be contacted.)
Ale di KL!@jon This, but also de-emphasize the domain.
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Fuck this! Pre-@ was invented by lazy unfederated service developers to ease text parsing.
The only correct form is 'email-like' account@server. I use it for proprietary services too. You can contact me via Xenocephal@Telegram
Fuck this! Pre-@ was invented by lazy unfederated service developers to ease text parsing.
The only correct form is 'email-like' account@server. I use it for proprietary services too. You can contact me via Xenocephal@Telegram
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@jon honestly though, I kinda wish we could have domain name user names, like a domain name searchable by mastodon that would point to my profile like bsky
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@hopolapopola @jon the way bsky handles this I think is it just flat out looks up the DNS and finds your profile in the txt records.
@hopolapopola like every bsky username is just a flatout domain name