@luna i like "/", because its like "on" if you say...

@luna i like "/", because its like "on" if you say ⅞ as "7 on 8". @user/example.site

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

Like 11 Jul 2023 at 17:37 | Wall-to-wall | Open on eldritch.cafe

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

11 Jul 2023 at 19:27 | Open on anarchy.center

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.

11 Jul 2023 at 20:03 | Open on mstdn.social

@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!!

12 Jul 2023 at 0:50 | Open on masto.ai

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

12 Jul 2023 at 9:07 | Open on fosstodon.org

Andrew

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

12 Jul 2023 at 11:47 | Open on mathstodon.xyz