"That's the irony of what Blaine did when he created WebFinger. It was supposed to support multiple! It wasn't supposed to just be this is your fediverse address, it was supposed to be, here's how you find all the different account of information about me, and different things."
@rabble, 2025
https://wedistribute.org/podcast/s2e3-rabble-from-nos-social/
So ... WF is meant to facilitate something like Libravatar, where all roads lead back to a canonical profile? Hmm ...
On October 2, 2013, GNU social developer MMN-o (Mikael Nordfeldth) published a blog piece announcing that they'd rolled out a change to their WebFinger implementation, adding backwards-compatible support for the RFC7033 version;
"Plus of course the former RFC6415 (Web Host Metadata), which StatusNet supports (but only XRD format)."
For those who don't know, masrodon.social was created to federate with #GnuSocial servers.