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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[–] julian@activitypub.space 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

By the time it (unique handles between users and categories) was needed, NodeBB had been around for 10 years and installed in countless places.

It needed to be done in one fell swoop so we coded an upgrade script that prioritized the user slug (as historically it had been around longer).

Hopefully the only thing you really have to federate out is an Update, but who knows what'll happen.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

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

Unlikely to change. I found a more recent issue that was closed with a link going to that one, so they've been over this multiple times over the years and don't want to budge.

PieFed will continue to disallow communities and feeds to have the same name as users, that will maximize compatibility.