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der.hans

@J12t people got used to URLs, email addresses, twitter handles and whatever the other proprietary social medias use

@user@domain.tld will do fine if whole Fediverse uses it and we get large enough for wide-scale adoption

Regarding large-scale adoption, if Fediverse accounts and email accounts are the same that would mean a huge chunk of Fediverse accounts are gmail

Also, will we get subaddressing for Fediverse accounts?

5 Apr 2023 at 5:07 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social
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Johannes Ernst
der.hans

@J12t account+string@domain.tld

for delivery the token ( often a plus sign ) and the string get ignored to deliver the mail to account

makes it easy to create unique email addresses

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_ad

5 Apr 2023 at 5:13 | Open on mastodon.social
Johannes Ernst

@lufthans ah. One way of doing it. Also, the jabber way. Not sure what exactly the fediverse use cases are there, however, as they are probably different from the ones for email and IM. Jabber mostly used it for different devices, and some for work / non work.

5 Apr 2023 at 5:15 | Open on social.coop
der.hans

@J12t Fediverse is more about public social services than email, so having a unique address for every entity one interacts with makes less sense

if we had mostly private end to end, then they could be useful for specific topics or projects, e.g. LuftHans+SeaGL and LuftHans+SCaLE, but the Fediversian way would more likely include lists and hashtags

5 Apr 2023 at 5:22 | Open on mastodon.social
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