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Andreas, DJ3EI

The venerable "cool URIs don't change" w3.org/Provider/Style/URI (by Sir Tim Berners-Lee himself) has good counsel what NOT to put into an URI. Among those:

> Software mechanisms. ... give-away "look what software we are using" bits in URIs.

There is an extra paragraph stressing this also holds for domain names.

Now "Mastodon" is a particular technology. So all customary "mastodon.*"-type hostnames are ignorant of TBL's good advise.

@cuchaz
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Andreas, DJ3EI

Hello, @feditips , maybe you want to add a note to your material: Names containing "mastodon" (or, for that matter, "mstdn" ๐Ÿ˜) are a bad idea, from a long-term perspective. These (even legally) tie you to one particular Fediverse implementation. Forever.

I'm curious to see whether you actually follow this suggestion. ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜

@cuchaz
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