A big feature of my blog is its ability to act as a #fediverse agent. For example, following me here with <a href="http://starrwulfe.xyz/about">starrwulfe@starrwulfe.xyz</a> will allow you to read every post here and also comment directly; it’s literally my commenting system for the blog as well as my main Mastodon compatible client. However, there’s a big problem when interacting with certain accounts from here, specifically if their usernames have a dot [.] in them. It errors out.
Entering any fediverse @-@ handle with a dot in the first part of the username throws an “invalid URL” error.
Entering these valid handles:
Will yield the following dialogue:
It’s true some fediverse apps don’t allow dots in the username, but a lot more are starting to be used, and of course the Brid.gy service utilizes site URLs as fediverse handles, so this functionality is a must.
(PS: This could all be moot if there was an ActivityPub URI like ap://@example@goes.here/ that would bypass all this and allow that format to be input anywhere. #IJS 🤷🏾♂️)
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