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.
Here are some sample <strong>Fediverse ID</strong>s:
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<li>@joeblow@example.com</li>
<li>@name@host</li>
<li>@reiver@mastodon.social</li>
<li>@massoud@onepicaday.com</li>
<li>@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org</li>
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<h2>Resemblance With E-Mail Addresses</h2>
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A <strong>Fediverse ID</strong> looks similar to an <strong>e-mail address</strong>.
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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.
<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.
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<h2>acct URI</h2>
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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-linktransform="lowercase">WebFinger</ziba-link>.)