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I do think I’m in the “@“ / @tmosphere camp. I know it suggests email a bit but the technology is atproto for a reason

That symbol isn't called the at symbol in all languages, e.g., brazil calls it something different

Yep. In Italy we call it “chiocciola” (literally “snail”). I find it quite funny. 😄

In Germany most of us call it "at" using the English word, but the "real German" word for that is "Klammeraffe", which translates to "clamping monkey". Don't ask me why...

Easy solution, rename it to Klammeraffeproto

In Russian it’s called “собачка» which means “doggie” or “unknown symbol”, don’t ask me why - probably because until then nobody ever have seen this symbol and it got a generic “that thingie than nobody understands” name.