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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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Better question is why don't both use a dot like URLs do because people have had 30 years of getting used to that:
username.lemmy.world
Plus this wouldn't get confused with an email address.
That's technically a subdomain and the same reason email went with @
They aren't URLs they are URI schemas. A URL is a segment of the URI schema.