Gregory's Server@kevinmarks fwiw what i was trying to say is that the human-friendly identifier (webfinger) should resolve to the machine-friendly identifier (activitypub id, which can be reasonably resolved via https and parsed by code)
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 @kevinmarks well again, that's dealing purely within the realm of mastodon, which i think we can agree does not strictly *need* webfinger, but i still think it is useful for interop note that the mastodon web domain and webfinger domain do not have to be the same, either -- i could host mastodon.trwnh.com and have a profile at mastodon.trwnh.com/@a, but still use the webfinger address a@trwnh.com for consistency with my email and xmpp (although with that said, i do not wish to run mastodon....) |
@trwnh but it isn't human friendly.
https://mastodon.social/@trwnh is, because humans and browsers know what to do with it.
URLs have had over 30 years to get the infrastructure and knowledge right.