Replying to Avatar Strypey

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> a user handle already starts with @, making it redundant and deprived of any meaning

This kind of makes sense on centralised services where you're directing a message (at) someone. The current fediverse and matrix address formats take that, and mash it together with the...

> (at) somewhere

... of email addresses.

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It's not ideal. But changing either at this point would require not only protocol change, but some major retraining of everyone using them.

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