What does it mean when the user has @ in front of the name - eviltoast

I know that users from different instances can have @instance after the user name, but what does it mean when the username is @username ?

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    1 year ago

    I’ve been trying to figure this out too literally just found it in the settings>accounts> (yourname)>username