mccFeb 20
Consider a Mastodon/Fediverse handle, like @[email protected] . What kinds of restrictions are there on "username"? Can I assume any valid unicode could go in there?
Show threadEvan Prodromou

@mcc unfortunately, it's very restrictive. It feels like a huge opportunity for us to reach the majority of people on the planet who use non-Latin characters for their names, but the network right now is mostly Latin.

https://www.w3.org/community/reports/socialcg/CG-FINAL-apwf-20240608/

ActivityPub and WebFinger

Identifiers in ActivityPub tend to be HTTPS URIs. The use of WebFinger (as defined in [RFC7033]) allows for discovery of an actor's identifier given a username and a hostname, which may be more socially salient or otherwise easier to communicate across various contexts and media. The username and hostname are resolved at the WebFinger endpoint of the hostname in order to discover a link to an actor associated with the user's account, and that actor similarly can be back-linked to the username and hostname.

Feb 20 at 3:15amWeb