Why YSK: to help keep the platform in order and help make the admins and mods’ work easier.
The !lemmy.world community is only about this instance of Lemmy, and the content in it is also meant to be so.
We have a lot of communities here now, and so we can keep our posts and feeds in order! Let’s use them for what they’re meant to be and support all the amazing communities popping up! For news and discussions about Reddit, you may visit the relevant community. Let’s always try to search for the appropriate communities before posting content.
What is the ! community? Is that some sort of lemmy specific magic name?
@yads @clueless_stoner The ! Has never worked for me. Just the @name@whateverinstanceis works for me
The ! is Lemmy language for “group, not user”. But it only works in Lemmy, which is probably why kbin is not following suit.
How you distinguish between users and groups in kbin I have no idea, but whatever it is I guess it’s supposed to work in Mastodon as well.
@sab @clueless_stoner @yads Yea when the blackout started I didn’t know what I was doing. Created a username on lemmy.world and some subs. Found about mastodon created an account there and didn’t realize I only needed one Lol. I use the lemmy username for upvoting and my subs but I use Mastodon for everything else. Comments, replies etc… I like the local and fedeversetabs on Mastodon. I guess everyone got there own niche.
I also created accounts on both lemmy.world and mastodon. I know I can view mastodon content in the lemmy app (jeroba) and vice versa. Are you saying I can login to the mastodon app with my lemmy.world credentials? My (possibly wrong) impression is that the “style” of content on each is sufficiently different to warrant different accounts & apps.
@UniversalFlamingo I think you have to login to your instance with the server you made then you can interact with everyone. Example my mastodon I can login via mastodon and interact with all lemmy people. If I have a lemmy account I login through lemmy and can chat, comment on mastodon people
@sab @tech
Just testing this out, I’m here on kbin lol.
Mastodon doesn’t natively support groups so we just use another protocol (such as chirp.social) so we know by seeing the domain name.
I’ve only used it that way so that it wouldn’t be confused with the general platform :) the community names on Lemmy are registered as !communityname