always wondered this, but kept forgetting to post it

eg users would be on @grant@toast.ooo and a community would be on @canvas@group.toast.ooo or something like that

then it would still follow the AP spec but still allow for identical identifiers (like a user account being @sc07@toast.ooo and a community also being !sc07@toast.ooo)

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
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    5 months ago

    And that’s why users get @user and communities are !community. I’m not sure what you’re asking for tbh, I think the current system works fine, searching could be easier, but I haven’t seen anyone confused by the difference there.

    Nested DNS is a pain, and not really what it’s meant to do, that’s why we don’t use nested DNS. If you take DNS away as a solution (because it’s not really one), then what is currently happening makes a lot of sense.

    • grant 🍞@toast.oooOPEnglish
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      5 months ago

      @user works on all fediverse platforms, but !community does not

      i was proposing for this to be a possible solution to make it work across all existing platforms w/o requiring all the other platforms to support lemmy’s system

      • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        Ohhkay I finally get what you’re suggesting now. From something like Mastodon there’s no clear way to specify.

        Ehh, something to be solved but not a huge deal IMO. I think it’d have to be something custom, as there’s no concept on Mastodon like Lemmy’s communities, but I still stand by DNS isn’t the way to solve it. Mixing it in with a hashtag might be a good way, where if you could “subscribe” to a hashtag over there, like #community@instance.tld, but then we’re just talking about syntax. I actually do think there needs to be a standardization on “groups” then across the fediverse, and since Lemmy is the only one I’ve seen with a group syntax, I’d just suggest we standardize !