I’m curious - what’s the difference between magazines and users when linked to the greater fediverse?
It seems like the link to both would be @name@kbin.social. If somebody creates a user named news, it would therefore be found at @news@kbin.social - which is where the news magazine is found.
Don’t these collide? How do we distinguish between the two?
I’m sorry if the answer is obvious somehow. :)
@sab Actually, that’s the idea, Lemmy and Matrix use a ! before the URL to name communities/rooms for example !technology but Mastodon doesn’t support it and they are the biggest platform so they don’t have any plan to do it, Kbin’s solution was to use the same logic for users than for magazines. If you access a magazine from Mastodon you will see that it works as a user. Many people think that Lemmy is the only one who resists Mastodon’s bad practices.