Option to hide .bsky.social portion of user handle

[hopqer]

Some users choose a custom domain as their bluesky handle, and that's great, especially for verification purposes! But for those who just want to remain unverified & local with username dot bsky dot social, it would look super clean if given the option - at least in the feed - to hide the dot bsky dot social portion of the URL. (Though it would also vastly improve mentions by not eating up as much of the character limit, I'm not sure how that might affect user tagging on the back end.)

So for example: (@)hopper.bsky.social would just appear as (@)hopper in the feed while (@)hopper(.)com would show the entire URL as the handle

[AdrianoCahete]

I don't think that this will happen because the way federate id works. You can have a lot of PDS'es, without a center Auth server.

But, I think that they can change how the handle is displayed on profile, and, maybe, on messages/citations. On profile they have more flexibility, but on messages is a little different, small window of improvement in there, IMO.

Who is the UI/UX responsible for project, @pfrazee @mozzius? (sorry for always tag you two, since I'm Brazilian, is the only 2 that I easier remember Hahahahah)

[electricduck]

This is something Mastodon did and, honestly, it made everything far more confusing. Once they made the change I saw more and more people just doing @username in posts (instead of @[email protected]) which, of course, didn't actually mention anyone. The domain suffix is a first-class important part of the username and there is simply no benefit of hiding it.