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 ๐Ÿ˜…

@darch@neotxt.dk If we want to make follow users and cross-pod mentioning easier for users, I would just drop the whole Twtxt feed URi entirely and just use webfinger period. Its far easier for non-technical people to reason about if we do that. Of course the actual Twtxt feed URL(s) are still there, just abstracted away from the users.

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