@ada I think I heard somewhere that ! means that the post wont be public but just targeted at the specific person or group. It can be seen by other though if they have a direct link to the post.
@[email protected]@[email protected] So, you posted this comment from Friendica, directly to a lemmy community, something that I didn’t know was possible, and haven’t been able to replicate, so all bets are off. I have no idea how it works :)
(I’m replying twice to test things. This is a reply from Calckey)
If you wanna do that then the post needs to have a title and then tag the community in the beginning of the post with either ! or @. Feel free to send a link to your post here if it doesn’t work then I might be able to tell you what’s wrong as I have tested it quite a lot now. Lemmy’s compatibility with other platforms isn’t so good in my opinion so it doesn’t take much mistake for it to just ignore one’s post.
I imagine the @ works fine as well, as long as there isn’t a user and a community with the same name. Not sure what would happen then, and haven’t been able to test that
@ada I think I heard somewhere that ! means that the post wont be public but just targeted at the specific person or group. It can be seen by other though if they have a direct link to the post.
@[email protected] @[email protected] So, you posted this comment from Friendica, directly to a lemmy community, something that I didn’t know was possible, and haven’t been able to replicate, so all bets are off. I have no idea how it works :)
(I’m replying twice to test things. This is a reply from Calckey)
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@anders @ada
Where are you from BTW? I see the name of your instance is a Danish name 😃
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] I’m from Australia. My instance is named after the Ikea shark plushy :)
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@anders @ada
Ah okay then it’s Swedish. The Scandinavian are hard to distinguish because they are so similar 😃
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@anders @ada
If you wanna do that then the post needs to have a title and then tag the community in the beginning of the post with either ! or @. Feel free to send a link to your post here if it doesn’t work then I might be able to tell you what’s wrong as I have tested it quite a lot now. Lemmy’s compatibility with other platforms isn’t so good in my opinion so it doesn’t take much mistake for it to just ignore one’s post.
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] I got it working from friendica! That was using the ! to tag it, which explicitly tags it as a community.
I imagine the @ works fine as well, as long as there isn’t a user and a community with the same name. Not sure what would happen then, and haven’t been able to test that
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@anders @ada
Cool! As long as you tag with the server domain name included it shouldnt tag another user.
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] The issue is that lemmy allows groups and users to have the same name.
So, if for some reason, on my instance, I created a group called ada, there would be [email protected] (the group) and @[email protected] (the user).
The ! is how you explicitly state that it’s a group, but most platforms don’t recognise that (Friendica and lemmy being the two obvious exceptions).
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Ah okay. Didn’t know that :O
Do you mean from within lemmy? It should be easy enough to experiment with and test