@aaronpk speaking of indieauth, something that i mentioned to @DickHardt over IIW was that I really really really want to make my handle be @sgo.to. Can't we come up with some form of convention that when you run into a @domain.example we do the indieauth thingy?
Sam Goto @samuelgoto
18 Nov 2022
Replying to @erynofwales @hober
If you put a rel="me" attribute in your links you can make that machine readable, which should help with things like indieauth (small win, but also small price). e.g. <a rel="me" href="mastodon.social/@erynofwales">@erynofwales</a> e.g. view-source:code.sgo.to/
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Replying to @samuelgoto @DickHardt @sgo @domain
Ironically, the ActivityPub spec itself works just fine with plain domain usernames, nothing about it requires WebFinger or username based IDs. That was something I pushed hard for when we were working on the spec. But sadly Mastodon requires the @-@ syntax and WebFinger.

Nov 18, 2022 · 1:44 PM UTC