Yeah this is the problem with the forced email like naming ... • Aaron Parecki

aaron https://social.aaronklemm.me/users/aaron • Apr 21
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To my new friends in the Fediverse, who can help me with account naming advice? I setup an instance at a domain that seems reasonable and that I’d like to make the home to my identity: aaronklemm.me

Then I chose a username that seems reasonable, “aaron”. But when my name is already in the URL, this gets redundant and weird. @aaron@aaronklemm.me kinda stinks.

So I need a solution and here’s one idea...

@amolith @Gargron @aaronpk

Yeah this is the problem with the forced email like naming scheme.

I went with my online username at my full domain, even if it's a bit redundant. The problem is that Mastodon assumes the domain name is not super relevant so it shows only the username part in the UI. If you use "social@" then people will refer to you as that on mastodon which looks weird. IMO there's no good solution, but the least bad solution is picking a username that you want people to use to identify you and stick that on your domain. That might even mean "aaronklemm@aaronklemm.me"

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Tue, Apr 21, 2020 8:00am -07:00

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- aaron
Have you written a response to this? Let me know the URL:
- aaron social.aaronklemm.me/users/aaron
  
  pkparecki.com that’s super helpful as I didn’t consider the interface experience here in the app. Also, hilariously, I didn’t even notice your naming has the same exact problem I described. And since I didn’t notice it...that’s says something.
  
  Tue, Apr 21, 2020 3:34pm +00:00

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