I just tried to make a post on Mastodon and tag a community in it so that my post would show up in that community -- something I've done many times before.

However, in this case, there is a Lemmy user with the same name as the community, and it defaulted to tagging that user. Is there a way to tag the community specifically?

I didn't even realize that a user could have the same name as a community. I thought every fediverse actor had to have a unique at-name-at-domain handle, and both users and communities were actors.

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[–] tuckerm@feddit.online 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I think that's just a way of getting a link to the community, but it doesn't actually tag the community in your post or make it get posted into that community. I just tried it, and the post does not show up in the community that I mentioned with !.

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's possible that it doesn't work:

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1922

[–] tuckerm@feddit.online 2 points 1 day ago

Thank you! That's too bad.