Smalls 🎃 👻 🍭based on the username model though, wouldn't there be a great deal of impersonation potential? What would stop someone from firing up 18 diff instances and using your username / avatar with a diff domain name - would be confusing/frustrating for ppl trying to find the 'real' you, no?
John Simpson@bigendiansmalls I *think* the usernames are referenced in a manner similar to jabber. "@" is technically local to a particular server but thinking "@user@server" is how you specify someone on a diff server?
@Thracky sort of it's like this
"[email protected]" is Gargron on this instance. But you could start thracky.goblin and be [email protected]. when you toot publicly then that's how it shows up vs his. Kind of makes sense. I'm warming to it.
"[email protected]" is Gargron on this instance. But you could start thracky.goblin and be [email protected]. when you toot publicly then that's how it shows up vs his. Kind of makes sense. I'm warming to it.
@bigendiansmalls Do a search for "@mastodon.xyz" for example. You'll see a few users show up