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Luna :circleA:

@fell @jon Hot take but I like how Matrix uses colons, it distinguishes the types of software at a glance, so you never have to specify which one is the chat app and which one is the social media

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irina πŸŒ·πŸ‡

@luna i like "/", because its like "on" if you say β…ž as "7 on 8". @user/example.site

but the ship has totally sailed so it'll probably be @...@... forever

Luna :circleA:

@irina Considering the colon is sometimes used as a division symbol, that may be what Matrix was going for?

kinyutaka

@irina @luna

I always think of the fraction as "over", like "7 over 8"

But there was a bunch of hacking attacks that used / as a way to get information.

Brittany Wilson

@irina @luna This looks much better than the two ampersands though. The two ampersands looks really bad and that’s been hard for me to get past!!

hauleth πŸ‡΅πŸ‡±β€οΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦

@irina @luna `@` is `at`, so it is `user at example.site`. IMHO the `@` at the beginning is more problematic.

Andrew

@irina @luna the other problem with / is that it's precisely opposite to how / is used in URLs β€” as in example.site/user

Anyarchiste 😸

@luna @fell @jon I like the colons more because it differentiates between pseudonym and server name

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