@prologic@twtxt.net Clients can always just ignore the nick part when displaying and render their local nickname if they want to. This discussion just started because the configuration data model in the original twtxt client is implemented with a map of nick to URL. So nicks need to be unique. Hence, I have two entries, “darch” for twtxt.net and “darch@neotxt” for neotxt.dk.

I might miss something, but I’m not interested in standardizing anything for URL lookups by nick, that’s completely up to the client. I only rarely type an entire mention verbatim, my client does it for me. It adds in all feeds that participated in the thread when replying. I reckon yarnd does (or did) the same.