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Why does Lemmy use "@" instead of ":" like Matrix does?
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this post was submitted on 05 May 2025
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It looks like it's a Webfinger implementation to parse the ActivityPub user URI. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35750312
The
@user@instance.tldformat has become a convention across most if not all ActivityPub platforms. In the end the software will look uphttps://instance.tld/useranyway.