@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 2 years agoWhy do communities start with an exclamation mark instead of a hashtag?message-square24fedilinkarrow-up111arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up19arrow-down1message-squareWhy do communities start with an exclamation mark instead of a hashtag?@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 2 years agomessage-square24fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilinkEnglish0•2 years agoOkay, but how does a hashtag work? Can you give an example of a hashtagged word where Lemmy uses a hashtag?
minus-squareKNovalinkfedilinkEnglish2•2 years ago#hashtags don’t automatically work on Lemmy, but if I cross post this comment to another federated service (mastodon etc.) the hashtags should work there. #lemmy @knova@[email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoOkay, we have: # for tagging something @ for usernames ! for communities But does a question mark have any purpose here?
Okay, but how does a hashtag work? Can you give an example of a hashtagged word where Lemmy uses a hashtag?
#hashtags don’t automatically work on Lemmy, but if I cross post this comment to another federated service (mastodon etc.) the hashtags should work there. #lemmy @knova@[email protected]
Okay, we have:
#for tagging something@for usernames!for communitiesBut does a question mark have any purpose here?
Not that I’m aware.