That's cold.

It is not quite as bad as the OpenID website. It is supposed to be something that people use to log into websites, but any layperson going to their site would be completely lost.

I see it on Hubzilla.

Speaking of which, I keep forgetting how to create a new topic. Are the handles for that exposed anywhere on NodeBB?

@julian I know, but I was too lazy to start a new topic. :winking_face_with_tongue:

@julian Another thing to consider is that showing handles is a good way to prevent spoofing or identity confusion. That way you can tell the difference between julian@community,nodebb.org and julian@example.com. The fact that the domain is different alerts the user that this is not the same Julian.

@freamon You also have the Hubzilla example, which shows the entire handle below the user's display name.

For example, mine shows up as:

Scott M. Stolz
scott@loves.tech

On NodeBB, the name could be made clickable and go to the person's profile.

@julian For a lot of people, the standard flow is to copy someone's handle, go back to their home base on Mastodon or Hubzilla or whatever, and follow or connect with them. Making the handle visible on the NodeBB UI would help people who use that flow.

It appears that NodeBB is not accepting edits of posts.

@infinite love ⴳ I understand how it is defined. I am just commenting, and laughing, at the fact that the terms ActivityPub uses does not match the common meaning of the words.

Unless I looked up "tag" in ActivityPub, I would have never assumed in a million years that it meant "related to" because everyone else uses the term "tag" to mean "hashtag."