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   Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Monday, 21-Nov-2022 04:55:37 JST Evan Prodromou

   in reply to

   • Brion Vibber :blobcatcoffee:​
   • James Walker
   • Pelle Wessman
   • zcopley

   @voxpelli

   Me and @walkah and @zcopley and @brion .

   #OStatusDreamTeam

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     Pelle Wessman (voxpelli@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 21-Nov-2022 04:55:38 JST Pelle Wessman

     in reply to

     • Simon Willison
     • James Walker
     • blaine

     @simon The actual addressing of simon(a)simonwillison.net is independent of Mastodon though – it’s WebFinger which @blaine intially described and which has been around in this setup since @evan and @walkah created OStatus some +10 years back.
     And WebFinger can be used to discover a lot else, eg used by OpenID Connect but can really contain any kind of link relations, like eg rel-payment for a donation feature (we did back then at Flattr)

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     Simon Willison (simon@fedi.simonwillison.net)'s status on Monday, 21-Nov-2022 04:55:39 JST Simon Willison

     One of the most interesting innovations that Twitter gave us which I don't think is appreciated enough is the ability to reference a human being by a single, globally unique identifier

     Being able to say "I learned this from @..." or "This project by @... is really cool" is such a neat way to be able to interact with the world

     It can be abused too, but I really loved that ability to reference other real humans

     We get that on Mastodon too, but only for the people who've moved here so far!