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Seems like a way to normalize social profiles to have a loose federation across multiple services.

This could lead to pierat@coolsite.com@discord.com and use discord as a federated source of truth.

Yeah it's painful, but it doesn't 'feel bad'.

No this definitely feels real bad.

Actually why not just go with emails. They are somewhat durable enough, globally unique. And easy to remember and find.

Yeah, just change everybody's visible username to their email overnight.

It's also called mass doxxing.

So force them to register one that is public.

Infinitely better than the evil crap they are now doing.