NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliated media'

Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by VWWHFSfQ on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:12PM (#35543125)

for some reason I'm annoyed by all the @ symbols in these new things

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by nkcmr on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:17PM (#35543233)

Yah, the one thing that I like about bluesky is their name-spacing: “sports.npr.org”

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by soulofmischief on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:26PM (#35543385)

We are coming full circle back to Usenet.

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by riffic on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:16PM (#35543197)

it was annoying to me to type it too! There are also webfinger URLs that serve the same purpose like https://mastodon.social/@gargron == @[email protected]

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by paulej on Friday April 14, 2023 @01:10PM (#35571939)

That's not a WebFinger URL. WebFinger URLs point to /.well-known/ path that returns a JSON document with links to other places for the user. To simplify WebFinger use by a human, we introduced acct:[email protected] syntax. And (at least my) WebFinger clients can assume the acct: part, much like email clients do for the email: scheme.

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by Steltek on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @02:42PM (#35544681)

I like the Matrix format, "@user:domain.tld"

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by mcv on Thursday April 20, 2023 @01:45AM (#35636801)

I prefer the email format: [email protected]. There's no reason that can't be used for social media.

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