(06-01-2018, 11:29 AM)Foggalong Wrote: It just makes it harder to communicate with other people than it needs to be. Unless all my friends are on the same instance then I've got an extra hoop to jump through

why? b/c their "username" also includes an instance name as well? you can follow anyone on any instance from any other instance, regardless of it it's federated or not.

you can follow me as "@xero@mastodon.social" from any node. but if you're on the same node you can just use "@xero". but now that the total number of nodes has exploded i think everyone has just started using user@instance names all the time now just to be specific/sure.