And I would say that it's totally up to any OStatus client to improve on that in...

VoxPelli on Sept 26, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: OStatus: like Twitter, but open

And I would say that it's totally up to any OStatus client to improve on that in their UI if they want to. Mobile phones and e-mail clients rarely uses the raw numbers and e-mail addresses in their UI:s but instead uses data from eg. an address book to make it more userfriendly.