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If a Lemmy user has the same name as a community, how can I tag the community on Mastodon? (feddit.online)
submitted 1 day ago by tuckerm@feddit.online to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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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 2 points 1 day ago

Thank you! That's too bad.