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Social coding commons on Nostr: Nice work! There's an interesting inclusion and diversity angle to this. On one hand ...

Nice work! There's an interesting inclusion and diversity angle to this. On one hand it allows anyone to create handles in their own native language, and on the other hand it disallows most people from mentioning these handles. I'd not be able to reproduce a Japanese or Arabic handle easily, without keeping a cheat sheet somewhere, from where I copy/paste those handles. Who will do that in practice? I don't know the extent to which Latin is a common denominator between these languages and regions. Mass adoption might make the fediverse more inclusive, while driving fedizens apart in their own language bubbles. Perhaps there should be an ability to have an inclusive handle, and a Latin fallback for those not able to type the inclusive handle.

Update: Created an issue.. https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-webfinger/issues/33