Just came across a topic Where to meet Nextcloud users at Mastodon? - 🎉 Events & meetups - Nextcloud community with a great example of how messed up this is currently in discourse. Would love love love for this to get some love, to facilitate more interlinkages between people in the fediverse and the discourse communities they are part of.
The last two posts in the topic are classic examples, see screenshot below. @irdi is an internal link to the discourse user themselves. @rskikuli would be an internal link too but there is no user with that username. That user was clever enough to paste the URL to their federated account, but that feels like too much friction/effort to really get the sharing of federated handles to catch on.
