Oh my fucking god

I just had the sudden realisation that the way fedi does handles, @username@domain.tld, is pretty much almost exactly the same that "first name" and "last name" was handled in ye olden times

Then and there it often was X of Y, with X the name, and Y the city or place. "Last names" we have these days have this built in as an artefact; of, from, de, d', van, von, of the, etc.

So fedi has inadvertently recreated this trend

Your instance domain really is your fedi lastname

@ShadowJonathan I like the X of Y would be way sweeter

I am the Praxis of PouncedOn ​

@ShadowJonathan email

@ShadowJonathan does that make us fedi family

@ShadowJonathan

It's the same with E-Mail

@ShadowJonathan Arch of the Floofy Techs

@ShadowJonathan very true, ShadowJonathan van tech.lgbt

@ShadowJonathan agatha of tech

@ShadowJonathan hellow shadowjonathan van Tech-LGBT, i am johann d’qwertqwefsday

@ShadowJonathan So that means that I am Amycatgirl of Wet-Dry World
aka. Amycatgirl of Sernik
aka. Amycatgirl of Lea
aka. Amycatgirl of Tech
aka. Amycatgirl of Mastodon

@ShadowJonathan the hardest part of getting married is hyphenating your instance urls

@ShadowJonathan happy to be in the tech dot linux gay blåhaj trains big family

@ShadowJonathan nice to meet you i'm peachymist of the cutie city

@ShadowJonathan I'm ThunderComplex of today's musicians. This works really well, distinguishes me from the musicians of yesteryear.

@ShadowJonathan @username@domain.tld I’m a proud citizen of the nation-state of transfem.social. Our navy consists entirely of sharks.

@ShadowJonathan amie treehouse lore explained

@ShadowJonathan proud to have you as my sibling

@ShadowJonathan i am the stella of tech.lgbt

@ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt So, I'm Niko Absturztaube the first ?

@ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt @username@domain.tld Count Regal Inkwell of Kitty (dot) Social rolls right off the tongue

@tj

@ShadowJonathan that reminds me how much I have migrated

@ShadowJonathan or as my friends call me, peachy von cutie

@ShadowJonathan stella van tech-lgbt

@ShadowJonathan noooo I want my mononym :(

@Dee @ShadowJonathan as opposed to Mi, Underscore World

@ShadowJonathan ooooh i like this