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

  • fmstratEnglish
    3•5 days ago

    That’s not how Lemmy works. Lemmy uses Actor URLs of https://host.tld/u/user which is referenced via @user@host.tld, and communities are https://host.tld/c/community referenced as !community@host.tld. So there is no overlap.

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      • fmstratEnglish
        0•5 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.

        • @[email protected]English
          3•5 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.

          • fmstratEnglish
            1•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.