I’d love to see Mastodon adopt some variation of NIP-5 so that single-user instance usernames can be collapsed to just the @-domain name. I would support this in Micro.blog too (and maybe should just do it).
@manton would that imply that those with custom domains on MB would then appear as the domain part? Or are your thoughts more only for post coming in from mastodon?
@manton So, say google had just one account, they'd be @ google. com , but otherwise it's foo@ google.com et al? Big opportunities for brands in that, just "being the domain" is basically verification, if Ietter spoofling can be avoided.
@tadpol It would be a preference in Micro.blog. That way it could be enabled for personal domain names but not shared domain names (like a family blog or company site) where it wouldn’t totally fit.
@manton ooh, I like the _@root.domain -> @root.domain translation, pretty simple. Just that part seems like something that could be done now in clients as a convention while keeping the server code the same and changing single user usernames to “_”
@jesseplusplus Totally. It doesn’t seem like it would require any ActivityPub changes. So it could be rolled out without breaking anything as servers have time to update.
@manton I think thats a great idea and as someone who uses a single instance domain I would def utilize it
@manton I like that too… especially because my single user instance has the exact same repeat as yours.