From mastodon to follow an account or a community on lemmy you use the @name@server format and there is no difference between a community name and a user-name

so i was wondering if anyone tried and checked what happened

  • sugar_in_your_teaEnglish
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    5 days ago

    That’s not the question though. The question is what if I make a user called “@[email protected]” (i.e. this community)? That’s probably allowed on Lemmy, but since Mastodon doesn’t have the concept of communities in nearly the same way, what would happen?

      • sugar_in_your_teaEnglish
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        5 days ago

        I’m talking about mastodon interacting with Lemmy, not Lemmy interacting with itself.

        • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
          11·
          4 days ago

          I don’t follow… Lemmy and Mastodon both require port 443, so a single hostname of lemmy.ml can’t run both. Lemmy and Mastodon handle users the same way, just Mastodon doesn’t have !communities.

          • sugar_in_your_teaEnglish
            3·
            4 days ago

            I’m talking about a mastodon user referencing a Lemmy community vs a Lemmy user. Mastodon apparently uses the same syntax for both.

            • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
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              4 days ago

              Ohhhh. My understanding is initial @ in Mastodon is only required for users, and would default to user over community, while leaving off the initial @ would do community. I have not validated that in the source, though.