I'm still learning the quirks of federation and the behaviors of communities hosted on different instances, so I apologize if this is something that's been asked repeatedly.

I made a post to a community I am subscribed to at lemmy.ca, from my home instance at slrpnk.net. Public posts on that community (as well as the post that I made) are not showing up from my home instance. My profile page on my home instance does not show any record of the post that I made.

I was only able to find existence of the post that I made by going to lemmy.ca, and then finding the community that I posted to from there.

!woodworking@lemmy.ca

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[–] can@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm wondering too. /u/technomad@slrpnk.net was it the woodworking one?

[–] ProdigalFrog 2 points 1 month ago

I believe to ping someone, you need to put an @ symbol before their name instead of /u/. Depending on how you're interacting with Lemmy (web or app) it should provide some means of auto completing the ping.

[–] technomad 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes that one

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Curious, did you get a long from my mention or did I format it wrong?

[–] technomad 1 points 1 month ago

No, I didn't get any notification from your original ping attempt.