In-reply-to » @darch I kind of agree that we can probably omit the nick part in mentions entirely. Since they can be looked up and cached, there's no need for this. But we'll have to spec this all up. First let's see what @lyse and @movq and others like @anth thing about finally formalising a standard way to lookup feed URI(s) and define a slightly more saner? @-mention syntax/usage pattern. I for one hate manually typing out (for example) @<darch https://neotxt.dk/user/darch/twtxt.txt> like this @darch 😅

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Come to think of it, it’s actually an appealing “options” thing to support anyway I think. It sure does make looking things up a lot easier. It makes no difference to us now, since we all follow each other and have webb established clients and following maps, but if we think another few years from now how things might evolve, new users might appreciate a more “straight forward” mechanisms/lookup and address/identity.

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