I just tried to make a post on Mastodon and tag a community in it so that my post would show up in that community -- something I've done many times before.

However, in this case, there is a Lemmy user with the same name as the community, and it defaulted to tagging that user. Is there a way to tag the community specifically?

I didn't even realize that a user could have the same name as a community. I thought every fediverse actor had to have a unique at-name-at-domain handle, and both users and communities were actors.

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[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

In Lemmy, communities are linked with ! not @, e.g. !dach@feddit.org , maybe this also works from Mastodon.

[–] tuckerm@feddit.online 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I think that's just a way of getting a link to the community, but it doesn't actually tag the community in your post or make it get posted into that community. I just tried it, and the post does not show up in the community that I mentioned with !.

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's possible that it doesn't work:

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1922

[–] tuckerm@feddit.online 2 points 1 week ago

Thank you! That's too bad.

[–] yo_scottie_oh@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Is there no way for an app to say "give me the community only" or "give me the user only" when it calls the webfinger lookup thingy? Because if there is, then Mastodon devs could update the behavior on their side to depend on whether the name starts with @ or ! (the same way Lemmy apps do).