@ is simple and widely used. Just don't break things that work.
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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I agree that the double @ is off-putting.
It's a the double @ seems to be a general fediverse thing.
Looks like it's because you're a @user (inspired by Twitter maybe), as opposed to a #topic or a !community
I understand that, but I believe duplicating the @ in a username is confusing. With ~ we could have #topic, !community, ~user and @server