I tagged a lemmy.world community in one of my pixelfed posts and nothing happened.

  • Ducks@ducks.dev
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    1 year ago

    What happens if someone creates a user with the same name as the community?

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      1 year ago

      Not an expert, those who know more, please correct me.

      I think all name disambiguation is made by adding the instance name after. So if someone has the user pics in pixelfed.social, it would be pics@pixelfed.social, while the lemmy.world community would be pics@lemmy.world.

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        1 year ago

        I mean if on Pixelfed you @pics@lemmy.world, what happens if there’s a user with that name. Does it post to the community or send a message to the user somehow?

        On lemmy communities start with ! while users start with @ … but it looks like you used @ to reference the community

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          1 year ago

          I think you are right, but here it is where my knowledge falls short and why I didn’t write @pics@lemmy.world or !pics@lemmy.world. I think those would be user and community respectively.