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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.

Mike Dilger ☑️ 2y ago

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 think the @user@domain is a usability disaster. I don't think a slightly longer string hurts usability as much as a mastodon-looking string that soapbox says is formatted correctly but oops it cannot connect to the server.

I don't think I'll have any more points to make to any reply. I'm barely interested enough even to make these points.

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PABLOF7z 2y ago

The vast vast vast majority of people don't know what mastodon is. If you go out on the streets and ask strangers what user@domain is everybody will say "an email address", and if you say what's @user@domain maybe .0001% will say it's a mastodon thing

> I don't think I'll have any more points to make to any reply. I'm barely interested enough even to make these points.

hahaha, fair enough -- yes, it's not something I'm interested in either, I just think this kind of thing is important, but I share your dispassion for the topic

inventor 2y ago

The vast vast majority of people don't use email either.

Go to the street ask someone to write you an email from their phone.

They don't understand what it is. A friend recently asked me if this "email thing" I keep talking about wasn't Gmail. I said "sure, that's what it is", wasn't going to lose my time trying to explain.

And they shouldn't know, because email is a legacy protocol.

And, as others pointed out, @user@domain is not up for grabs anymore.