2023-05-25 UTC
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bkil aaronpk: About user subdomains vs. handles. The reason historical was probably that around the first heydays of The Fediverse around 2008-2012 where PHP-based implementations dominated, it allowed admins to easily and cheaply self-host an instance on shared (free) web hosting plans. Supporting subdomains requires more complicated implementation, quite a bit of fiddling and also only possible on a VPS.