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 Friendica)
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.
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 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
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).
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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.
Ada
in reply to Anders Rytter Hansen • • •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 Hansen
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Cool! As long as you tag with the server domain name included it shouldnt tag another user.
Ada
in reply to Anders Rytter Hansen • • •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).
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Ah okay. Didn't know that :O
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Where are you from BTW? I see the name of your instance is a Danish name 😃
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Ah okay then it's Swedish. The Scandinavian are hard to distinguish because they are so similar 😃