Well, an ! is meant to be for a group, and an @ is for a person, but I'm not sure how they actually play out when you try and tag someone with an !
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@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.
Do you mean from within lemmy? It should be easy enough to experiment with and test
@anders@venera.social @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 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)
@anders@rytter.me @anders@venera.social @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone I'm from Australia. My instance is named after the Ikea shark plushy :)
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.
@anders@rytter.me @anders@venera.social @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 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
@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 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 ๐
(I'm replying twice to test things. This is a reply from Friendica)