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submitted 2 years ago by anders@venera.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] ada@blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@anders@rytter.me @anders@venera.social @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 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 !ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone (the group) and @ada@lemmy.blahah.zone (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).

[–] anders@rytter.me 1 points 2 years ago

Ah okay. Didn't know that :O