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Mike Dilger ☑️ · 126w
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 ...
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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 largely a branding thing and not a protocol issue; technically speaking a URI scheme is more accurate, but that's a branding and usability disaster.
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Mike Dilger ☑️ · 126w
I agree that user@domain will be misunderstood as an email address, which is a usability issue. I don't agree that @user@domain is up for grabs. As others said, Mastodon uses that. I agree that it is largely a branding/usability issue. I don't agree that a URI scheme is a usability disaster. I th...
atyh · 126w
something simple and new would be cool. like n: but pablo is right. it wouldnt make sense to anyone but nerds.