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How users are presented in Lemmy (posta.no)

submitted 1 year ago by arne@posta.no to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] klangcola@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a the double @ seems to be a general fediverse thing.

Looks like it's because you're a @user (inspired by Twitter maybe), as opposed to a #topic or a !community

[–] arne@posta.no 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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

[–] gorilophobia@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

@ is simple and widely used. Just don't break things that work.

[–] BobQuasit@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I agree that the double @ is off-putting.

[–] odin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I agree it looks a little strange when we're used to seeing email IDs, but Mastodon uses the same username format so there is a precedent. It might be too difficult to change such a fundamental feature in Lemmy at this point to make it worthwhile.

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