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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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