would that imply that those with custom domains on MB would then appear as the domain part? Or are your thoughts more only for post coming in from mastodon?

@manton So, say google had just one account, they'd be @ google. com , but otherwise it's foo@ google.com et al? Big opportunities for brands in that, just "being the domain" is basically verification, if Ietter spoofling can be avoided.

@tadpol It would be a preference in Micro.blog. That way it could be enabled for personal domain names but not shared domain names (like a family blog or company site) where it wouldn’t totally fit.

@manton ooh, I like the _@root.domain -> @root.domain translation, pretty simple. Just that part seems like something that could be done now in clients as a convention while keeping the server code the same and changing single user usernames to “_”

@jesseplusplus Totally. It doesn’t seem like it would require any ActivityPub changes. So it could be rolled out without breaking anything as servers have time to update.

@manton I think thats a great idea and as someone who uses a single instance domain I would def utilize it

@liaizon Yes, and having a custom domain, I too would definitely prefer it.

@manton I like that too… especially because my single user instance has the exact same repeat as yours.

…prefer the option I should have said…

@manton That’s pretty great! 🙌🏻 Hope to see it around the fediverse soon!