In Lemmy my user is @arne@posta.no. Is there a reason for this double usage of @?

I would like to suggest that we start using tilde (~) as the prefix for usernames just to make it a bit more readable.

Meaning my username would be ~arne@posta.no

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    1 year ago

    I understand that, but I believe duplicating the @ in a username is confusing. With ~ we could have #topic, !community, ~user and @server

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      1 year ago

      I agree with this. Personally I feel it is better to have distinct separate ways to refer to distinct separate things. A user is not a server, so I don’t think it should be referred to in the same way as a server.