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PABLOF7z · 125w
Here me out: @nip05 how about we help differentiate nostr identifiers (NIP-05) from someone's email address @ is the universally recognized character to refer to someone. I think Bluesky got this o...
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user@domain is specifying a user at a domain, it is not specifying any protocol. The fact that people see it and think it is an email address is unfortunate, because this format of specifying a user at a domain was not originally intended to be used exclusively by email.

An email address URI is "mailto:user@domain"

We could use a URI something like "nostr:nip05:user@domain". I don't like the verbosity though.

But I don't like @user@domain. There is no way to tell that this is a nostr thing at all. Could be a mastodon address. Could be a bluesky address. Might be an email address with a typo.
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Mike Dilger ☑️ · 125w
To add to that, using "nostr:nip05:user@domain" doesn't require any context. It says what it is. Using "user@domain" requires context. You have to know external to the data that this is a nip05 address. In which case you already know that it is not an email address. A user only confuses it with a...
PABLOF7z · 125w
True, but that ship has long sailed; the user@domain making people think it's an email address is with us at least for another generation. Fact is, other nomenclatures, like @user@domain are largely still up for grabs because no other protocol/platform has captured it the way email has. This is la...