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

  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catEnglish
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    1 month ago

    What should happen: The backend checks if you’re trying to create a community that has the same name as a user, or vice versa, and refuses to do it because that would be confusing, since a lot of ways of referring to an entity on Lemmy use the exact same format for the user and the community.

    What does happen: Have fun with confusing!

    • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
      1·
      30 days ago

      What formats are the same? Users are /u and @ while communities are /c and !. No overlap to check for. Mastodon is where the confusion comes in.