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   silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-May-2026 22:36:40 JST silverpill

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   • Ryan Barrett
   • Beady Belle Fanchannel
   • mbajur

   @Profpatsch

   Several options have been discussed in this fediverse-ideas issue:

   https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediverse-ideas/issues/23

   @mbajur

   i'm currently using @domain.com@domain.com as a solution someone suggested to me a year ago but i find it a bit hacky and looking for a proper solution

   It's not a bad solution IMO.

   Maybe @snarfed.org has some ideas on how to do it better because domain handles are popular on Bluesky

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     Beady Belle Fanchannel (profpatsch@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 12-May-2026 22:36:42 JST Beady Belle Fanchannel

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     • mbajur

     @mbajur cc @silverpill

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     Beady Belle Fanchannel (profpatsch@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 12-May-2026 22:36:43 JST Beady Belle Fanchannel

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     @mbajur The other problem, as you can see above with @me is that if mastodon finds a nick on the local server, they will link it automatically, though I think you could argue that this is a misfeature from past times (it does not even open a dropdown)

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     Beady Belle Fanchannel (profpatsch@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 12-May-2026 22:36:44 JST Beady Belle Fanchannel

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     • mbajur

     @mbajur I’m just a little afraid of the case where you are replying to a toot that uses @domain nicks, because it might happen that they are dropped

     It would be interesting to test whether mastodon links to people in replies by their href already, or whether it tries to do (cached) webfinger again when you hit reply, because if they use the href from the previous toot it could already work in replies.

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     Beady Belle Fanchannel (profpatsch@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 12-May-2026 22:36:45 JST Beady Belle Fanchannel

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     @mbajur Ah yes, I’ve seen many people with single-user instances use something like @me@named.domain, which is super unfortunate because quoting them will show “@me”.

     I think what you want to do has a lot of value here … so I guess the steps are:

     1) implement webfinger to resolve @domain to the one actor, and @user@domain to point *to the same actor* (so you can mention them on platforms that don’t yet implement the new style quotes)
     2) Publish an FEP about this new webfinger extension

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     mbajur (mbajur@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-May-2026 22:36:46 JST mbajur

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     • Beady Belle Fanchannel
     • Abelio

     @Profpatsch I'm a bit confused on how to handle that in my upcoming AP project (@abelio) - every instance is a single-user instance and i'm currently using @domain.com@domain.com as a solution someone suggested to me a year ago but i find it a bit hacky and looking for a proper solution

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     Beady Belle Fanchannel (profpatsch@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 12-May-2026 22:36:47 JST Beady Belle Fanchannel

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     • mbajur

     @mbajur it's also kind of hard to parse cleanly and securely because Mastodon uses @user@example.com and others user@example.com, so hard to distinguish what's domain and what @ you can ignore …

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     Beady Belle Fanchannel (profpatsch@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 12-May-2026 22:36:48 JST Beady Belle Fanchannel

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     • mbajur

     @mbajur maybe what you could try to do is serve your actor activity JSON from root, but I'd wager most webfinger implementations reject handles with an empty user part

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     Beady Belle Fanchannel (profpatsch@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 12-May-2026 22:36:49 JST Beady Belle Fanchannel

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     • mbajur

     @mbajur I think we are trying to standardize instance actors in an FEP, but I haven't heard of pure domain actor names

     Edit: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-2677-identifying-the-application-actor/3646

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     mbajur (mbajur@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-May-2026 22:36:50 JST mbajur

     Does #mastodon support a root level domain handles yet? Like, say, user having his AP-enabled single-user website under example.com having a @example.com handle instead of @something@example.com

     #help #fedidev #fediverse #mastodev #activitypub #needhelp