[lutoma]

It's also effectively centralized. Of course that makes the experience easier.

[verdverm]

If you cannot reach UX that normal people will use, you're building for the very few

tradeoffs are acceptable to help our social fabric to take a step in a better direction and away from corporate silos and the attention economy

[kstrauser]

Except that usernames contain a domain name component, and the “bare” username likely isn’t globally unique, the UX is nearly the same as other microblogs. And as to that username bit, people are used to [e-mail] and [e-mail] being different people, and having to specify which one they’re trying to send an email to.

Everyone who’s both email and Twitter already understands all the basic concepts.