I hope, someday, we get to where our identities around the web are all based on unique domain names. When mentioning someone in a post, I always need to decide if I’m going to mention/link them by name, by their social media handle, or by their site. What if they were one and the same?

.me domains are perfect for this.

Micro.blog is close (you can @-mention a domain to link to it, and follow a site’s RSS feed by following it’s @-domain), but Bluesky is leading the way here:

On Bluesky and the AT Protocol, you can set domains that you own like bsky.team or alice.lol as your username.