reiver-fediverse/id.html

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	<h1>Fediverse ID (Fediverse)</h1>
	<section>
		<address class="h-card">
			by
			<a rel="author" class="u-url" href="http://changelog.ca/"><span class="p-given-name">Charles</span> <span class="p-additional-name">Iliya</span> <span class="p-family-name">Krempeaux</span></a>
		</address>
	</section>
	<section>
		<p>
			A <strong>Fediverse ID</strong> is an identifier that conceptually is usually used to point to a <strong>person</strong>, but also can be conceptually used to point to an <strong>application</strong>, a <strong>group</strong>, a <strong>organization</strong>, a <strong>service</strong>, or any other type of entity.
		</p>
		<p>
			Here are some sample <strong>Fediverse ID</strong>s:
		</p>
		<ul>
			<li>@joeblow@example.com</li>
			<li>@name@host</li>
			<li>@reiver@mastodon.social</li>
			<li>@massoud@onepicaday.com</li>
			<li>@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org</li>
		</ul>
	</section>
	<section>
		<h2>Resemblance With E-Mail Addresses</h2>
		<p>
			A <strong>Fediverse ID</strong> looks similar to an <strong>e-mail address</strong>.
		</p>
		<p>
			The main superficial difference being that a <strong>Fediverse ID</strong> starts with an <strong>at sign</strong> (“@”) (Unicode character U+0040), but an e-mail address does not.
		</p>
<figure>
<pre>

     at sign
       ↓
       @joeblow@example.com ← Fediverse ID

        joeblow@example.com ← e-mail address
       ↑
  no at sign

</pre>
</figure>
	</section>
	<section>
		<h2>Usage</h2>
		<p>
			<strong>Fediverse IDs</strong> appear in posts on the <strong>Fediverse</strong>, and are typed (something with the help of some form of autocomplete) by users.
		</p>
	</section>
	<section>
		<h2>acct URI</h2>
		<p>
			Part of the process of <strong>resolving</strong> a <strong>Fediverse ID</strong> transfomrs a <strong>Fediverse ID</strong> into an <ziba-link>acct URI</ziba-link>.
			(And then using that <ziba-link>acct URI</ziba-link> version of the <strong>Fediverse ID</strong> to make a request to <ziba-link transform="lowercase">WebFinger</ziba-link>.)
		</p>
		<p>
			Here is an example:
		</p>
<pre>

     at sign
       ↓
       @joeblow@example.com ← Fediverse ID

   acct:joeblow@example.com ← acct URI
       ↑
  no at sign

</pre>
	</section>
	<section>
		<h2>See Also</h2>
		<ul>
			<ul><ziba-link dir="id" name="syntax">Fediverse ID syntax</ziba-link></ul>
		</ul>
	</section>
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