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what happens when user and community have the same name (self.lemmy)

submitted 1 month ago by ex_06 to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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From mastodon to follow an account or a community on lemmy you use the @name@server format and there is no difference between a community name and a user-name

so i was wondering if anyone tried and checked what happened

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (7 children)

That's not the question though. The question is what if I make a user called "@Lemmy@lemmy.ml" (i.e. this community)? That's probably allowed on Lemmy, but since Mastodon doesn't have the concept of communities in nearly the same way, what would happen?

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

That's not how Lemmy works. Lemmy uses Actor URLs of https://host.tld/u/user which is referenced via @user@host.tld, and communities are https://host.tld/c/community referenced as [!community@host.tld](/c/community@host.tld). So there is no overlap.

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I'm talking about mastodon interacting with Lemmy, not Lemmy interacting with itself.

[–] ex_06 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thank you for taking your time to answer for me!

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

No worries!

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