Mentions to ActivityPub users
When mentionning an ActivityPub user, the post is received, on an ActivityPub like Mastodon, as the profile name with an href to the user profile, instead of a regular mention. Therefore, the apps read it as an external link and may display it like it would display a link to a random webpage.Until this is fixed, if it is, would anyone have a workaround to mention activitypub users in a non-suspicious way ? (cause it kinda feel suspicious when you're a Mastodon user)
sk@utsukta.org
steel_virgin@klacker.org
It's how Mike Macgirvin, original creator of Hubzilla, intended it when he created what's Friendica today back in 2010.
It just happens so that Mastodon doesn't expect this and doesn't handle it gracefully. After all, Mastodon is some six years younger than Friendica and, depending on what counts as Hubzilla's start, some four years younger than Hubzilla.
In other words: The Friendica/Hubzilla way of mentioning was here first. Mastodon and its users have to deal with it. Just like with Friendica and Hubzilla having no character limit before Mastodon had 500 characters.
Hubzilla does speak correctly, after all.