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It's a problem, but for all the problems with Mastodon I try to think of the equivalent problems with email (since I think it's the analogous for federation). W
by slazaro 4y ago
It's a problem, but for all the problems with Mastodon I try to think of the equivalent problems with email (since I think it's the analogous for federation). What keeps you from having github@example.com for your own domains?
- DoctorOW 4y agoUltimately, email has a wider societal understanding that the domain doesn't necessarily do much in the way of identity verification like Twitter does even though they're both free to the public. Mastodon has more trouble with this because it looks more like Twitter than email.
- jazzyjackson 4y agoI like their solution! every mark gets to be @mark and every jess can be @jess, as to which joe you are, just link to site you have control of to prove it. It's just a matter of expectations and messaging to all the users they're onboarding all of a sudden, but email is a good analogy, in fact if you control your email domain and your own mastodon instance, they could be one in the same address!
- OJFord 4y agoNothing, as you know, and many here (including me) do that or similar. It does occasionally confuse or upset the less tech-savvy 'github's who wonder why or how they're name is in your email address.