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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In Lemmy my user is @[email protected]. Is there a reason for this double usage of @?

I would like to suggest that we start using tilde (~) as the prefix for usernames just to make it a bit more readable.

Meaning my username would be ~[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's a the double @ seems to be a general fediverse thing.

Looks like it's because you're a @user (inspired by Twitter maybe), as opposed to a #topic or a !community

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I understand that, but I believe duplicating the @ in a username is confusing. With ~ we could have #topic, !community, ~user and @server

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Love this idea, more Unix like