↳ 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 There are two primary problems that the use of WebFinger can help solve (that I can think of):

• Conveniently sharing your Yarn.social / Twtxt “identity” with others, much like other competing ecosystems have done. e.g: prologic@twtxt.net (which can be looked up now with a webfinger client)
  
• Verifying @-mentions to be correct, potentially even rewriting them (yarnd does this anyway) to their proper @<url> form(s).